tactfulness

Questions about tactfulness

What does tactfulness mean?

tactfulness means "consideration in dealing with others and avoiding giving offense".

How many syllables are in tactfulness?

tactfulness has 3 syllables and divides as tact-ful-ness 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 tactfulness?

Close synonyms include tact. 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.

What is the opposite of tactfulness?

The recorded antonyms are tactlessness.

Is tactfulness a common word?

tactfulness 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.