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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
tawniness is a noun meaning "the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather". It carries one recorded sense.
the quality or state of being the color of tanned leather
“the tawniness of his complexion”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for tawniness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.