smartness

Other forms of smartness

plural

smartnesses·

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 smartness

What does smartness mean?

smartness means "a kind of pain such as that caused by a wound or a burn or a sore". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in smartness?

smartness has 2 syllables: smart-ness. The stress falls on "smart". In IPA it is /ˈsmɑɹtnɪs/.

What is another word for smartness?

Close synonyms include smart, smarting, brightness, cleverness, chic. 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 smartness a common word?

smartness 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.