tameness

Other forms of tameness

plural

tamenesses·

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 tameness

What does tameness mean?

tameness means "the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tameness?

tameness has 3 syllables: ta-me-ness. The stress falls on "ta".

What is another word for tameness?

Close synonyms include jejunity, jejuneness, vapidity, vapidness, domestication. 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 tameness?

The recorded antonyms are wildness.

Is tameness a common word?

tameness 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.