slyness

Questions about slyness

What does slyness mean?

slyness means "shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception".

How many syllables are in slyness?

slyness has 2 syllables: sly-ness. The stress falls on "sly". In IPA it is /ˈslaɪnəs/.

What is another word for slyness?

Close synonyms include craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile. 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 slyness a common word?

slyness 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.