sunniness

1. 1.

   lightness created by sunlight

   Broaderlight

   Narrowercloudlessness
2. 2.

   the quality of being cheerful and dispelling gloom

   “flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room”

   Synonymscheerfulnesscheersunshine

   Broaderattribute

   Narrowergood-temperedness

   Part ofdisposition

Other forms of sunniness

plural

sunninesses·

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 sunniness

What does sunniness mean?

sunniness means "lightness created by sunlight". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in sunniness?

sunniness has 3 syllables: sun-ni-ness. The stress falls on "sun".

What is another word for sunniness?

Close synonyms include cheerfulness, cheer, sunshine. 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 sunniness a common word?

sunniness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.