steadiness

1. 1.

   freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct

   “He trusted her clear steadiness that she would do what she said”

   Broaderresoluteness
2. 2.

   the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place

   Synonymsfirmness

   Antonymsunsteadiness

   Broaderimmovability

   Narrowergranitesurenessstability
3. 3.

   the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying

   Antonymsunsteadiness

   Broaderregularity

Other forms of steadiness

plural

steadinesses·

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 steadiness

What does steadiness mean?

steadiness means "freedom from wavering or indecision; constancy of resolve or conduct". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in steadiness?

steadiness has 3 syllables: stead-i-ness. The stress falls on "stead". In IPA it is /ˈstɛdinɪs/.

What is another word for steadiness?

Close synonyms include 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 steadiness?

The recorded antonyms are unsteadiness, unsteadiness.

Is steadiness a common word?

steadiness 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.