sparseness

Questions about sparseness

What does sparseness mean?

sparseness means "the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness".

How many syllables are in sparseness?

sparseness has 3 syllables and divides as spar-se-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 sparseness?

Close synonyms include spareness, sparsity, thinness. 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 sparseness a common word?

sparseness 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.