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 and divides as som-bre-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 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.