thorniness

Other forms of thorniness

plural

thorninesses·

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 thorniness

What does thorniness mean?

thorniness means "the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in thorniness?

thorniness has 3 syllables: thor-ni-ness. The stress falls on "thor".

What is another word for thorniness?

Close synonyms include prickliness, bristliness, spininess, bitterness, acrimony. 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 thorniness a common word?

thorniness 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.