stolidness

1. 1.

   an indifference to pleasure or pain

   Synonymsstoicismstolidity

   Broaderunemotionality

Other forms of stolidness

plural

stolidnesses·

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 stolidness

What does stolidness mean?

stolidness means "an indifference to pleasure or pain".

How many syllables are in stolidness?

stolidness has 3 syllables: sto-lid-ness. The stress falls on "sto".

What is another word for stolidness?

Close synonyms include stoicism, stolidity. 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 stolidness a common word?

stolidness 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.