thickness

Other forms of thickness

plural

thicknesses·

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 thickness

What does thickness mean?

thickness means "the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thickness?

thickness has 2 syllables: thick-ness. The stress falls on "thick". In IPA it is /ˈθɪknəs/.

What is another word for thickness?

Close synonyms include heaviness. 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 thickness?

The recorded antonyms are thinness, thinness.

Is thickness a common word?

thickness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.