suddenness

Questions about suddenness

What does suddenness mean?

suddenness means "the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning".

How many syllables are in suddenness?

suddenness has 3 syllables: sud-den-ness. The stress falls on "sud". In IPA it is /ˈsʌdənnəs/.

What is another word for suddenness?

Close synonyms include abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy. 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 suddenness a common word?

suddenness 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.