stylishness

Other forms of stylishness

plural

stylishnesses·

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 stylishness

What does stylishness mean?

stylishness means "elegance by virtue of being fashionable".

How many syllables are in stylishness?

stylishness has 3 syllables and divides as sty-lish-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for stylishness?

Close synonyms include chic, chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness. 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 stylishness a common word?

stylishness 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.