soberness

Other forms of soberness

plural

sobernesses·

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 soberness

What does soberness mean?

soberness means "the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soberness?

soberness has 3 syllables: so-ber-ness. The stress falls on "so".

What is another word for soberness?

Close synonyms include sobriety, graveness, gravity, sobriety, somberness. 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.

What is the opposite of soberness?

The recorded antonyms are drunkenness.

Is soberness a common word?

soberness 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.