tackiness

Other forms of tackiness

plural

tackinesses·

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 tackiness

What does tackiness mean?

tackiness means "the property of being cohesive and sticky". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tackiness?

tackiness has 3 syllables: tac-ki-ness. The stress falls on "tac".

What is another word for tackiness?

Close synonyms include cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness. 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 tackiness a common word?

tackiness 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.