skillfulness

Other forms of skillfulness

plural

skillfulnesses·

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 skillfulness

What does skillfulness mean?

skillfulness means "the state of being cognitively skillful".

How many syllables are in skillfulness?

skillfulness has 3 syllables and divides as skill-ful-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 the opposite of skillfulness?

The recorded antonyms are unskillfulness.

Is skillfulness a common word?

skillfulness 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.