soundness

Other forms of soundness

plural

soundnesses·

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 soundness

What does soundness mean?

soundness means "a state or condition free from damage or decay". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in soundness?

soundness has 2 syllables: sound-ness. The stress falls on "sound". In IPA it is /ˈsaʊndnəs/.

What is another word for soundness?

Close synonyms include wisdom, wiseness, firmness. 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 soundness?

The recorded antonyms are unsoundness, unsoundness, unsoundness.

Is soundness a common word?

soundness 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.