stolidity

Other forms of stolidity

plural

stolidities·

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 stolidity

What does stolidity mean?

stolidity means "apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stolidity?

stolidity has 4 syllables: sto-li-di-ty. The stress falls on "li".

What is another word for stolidity?

Close synonyms include emotionlessness, impassivity, impassiveness, phlegm, indifference. 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 stolidity a common word?

stolidity 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.