steadiness

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.