tempestuousness

Other forms of tempestuousness

plural

tempestuousnesses·

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 tempestuousness

What does tempestuousness mean?

tempestuousness means "a state of wild storminess". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in tempestuousness?

tempestuousness has 5 syllables: tem-pe-stu-ou-sness. The stress falls on "stu".

What is another word for tempestuousness?

Close synonyms include agitation, ferment, fermentation, unrest. 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 tempestuousness a common word?

tempestuousness 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.