spininess

Questions about spininess

What does spininess mean?

spininess means "the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines".

How many syllables are in spininess?

spininess has 3 syllables and divides as spi-ni-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 spininess?

Close synonyms include prickliness, bristliness, thorniness. 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 spininess a common word?

spininess 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.