stuffiness

Other forms of stuffiness

plural

stuffinesses·

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 stuffiness

What does stuffiness mean?

stuffiness means "state of obstruction or stoppage or air in the nose or throat". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stuffiness?

stuffiness has 3 syllables: stuf-fi-ness. The stress falls on "stuf".

What is another word for stuffiness?

Close synonyms include closeness, stodginess. 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 stuffiness a common word?

stuffiness 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.