slackness

Other forms of slackness

plural

slacknesses·

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 slackness

What does slackness mean?

slackness means "weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slackness?

slackness has 2 syllables: slack-ness. The stress falls on "slack". In IPA it is /ˈslæknəs/.

What is another word for slackness?

Close synonyms include inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slack, laxness. 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 slackness a common word?

slackness 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.