seediness

Questions about seediness

What does seediness mean?

seediness means "a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing".

How many syllables are in seediness?

seediness has 3 syllables and divides as see-di-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for seediness?

Close synonyms include shabbiness, manginess, sleaziness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is seediness a common word?

seediness 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.