subsidiarity

Questions about subsidiarity

What does subsidiarity mean?

subsidiarity means "secondary importance".

How many syllables are in subsidiarity?

subsidiarity has 6 syllables: sub-si-di-a-ri-ty. The stress falls on "a".

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.