sombreness

Other forms of sombreness

plural

sombrenesses·

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 sombreness

What does sombreness mean?

sombreness 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 sombreness?

sombreness has 3 syllables: som-bre-ness. The stress falls on "som".

What is another word for sombreness?

Close synonyms include gloom, somberness, gloom, gloominess, 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.

Is sombreness a common word?

sombreness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.