somberness

Other forms of somberness

plural

sombernesses·

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 somberness

What does somberness mean?

somberness means "a state of partial or total darkness". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in somberness?

somberness has 3 syllables: som-ber-ness. The stress falls on "som".

What is another word for somberness?

Close synonyms include gloom, sombreness, gloom, gloominess, sombreness. 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 somberness a common word?

somberness 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.