suaveness

Questions about suaveness

What does suaveness mean?

suaveness means "the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner".

How many syllables are in suaveness?

suaveness has 4 syllables and divides as su-a-ve-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 suaveness?

Close synonyms include suavity, blandness, smoothness. 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 suaveness a common word?

suaveness 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.