subsidiarity

Questions about subsidiarity

What does subsidiarity mean?

subsidiarity means "secondary importance".

How many syllables are in subsidiarity?

subsidiarity has 6 syllables and divides as sub-si-di-a-ri-ty 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 subsidiarity?

Close synonyms include subordinateness. 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 subsidiarity a common word?

subsidiarity 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.