shortness

Other forms of shortness

plural

shortnesses·

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 shortness

What does shortness mean?

shortness means "the property of being of short spatial extent". That is the primary sense; the word has 6 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shortness?

shortness has 2 syllables: short-ness. The stress falls on "short". In IPA it is /ˈʃɔɹtnəs/.

What is another word for shortness?

Close synonyms include truncation, abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness. 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.

What is the opposite of shortness?

The recorded antonyms are longness, longness, tallness.

Is shortness a common word?

shortness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.