smarminess

Questions about smarminess

What does smarminess mean?

smarminess means "smug self-serving earnestness".

How many syllables are in smarminess?

smarminess has 3 syllables and divides as smar-mi-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 another word for smarminess?

Close synonyms include fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, unctuousness, unction. 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 smarminess a common word?

smarminess 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.