rustiness

1. 1.

   the condition of being coated or clogged with rust

   Broadercondition
2. 2.

   ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice

   “his rustiness showed when he was asked to speed up”

   Broaderawkwardness

Other forms of rustiness

plural

rustinesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about rustiness

What does rustiness mean?

rustiness means "the condition of being coated or clogged with rust". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in rustiness?

rustiness has 3 syllables: ru-sti-ness. The stress falls on "ru".

Is rustiness a common word?

rustiness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.