silliness

Other forms of silliness

plural

sillinesses·

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 silliness

What does silliness mean?

silliness means "a ludicrous folly". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in silliness?

silliness has 3 syllables: sil-li-ness. The stress falls on "sil". In IPA it is /ˈsɪlinəs/.

What is another word for silliness?

Close synonyms include absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, giddiness. 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 silliness a common word?

silliness 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.