timeliness

Other forms of timeliness

plural

timelinesses·

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 timeliness

What does timeliness mean?

timeliness means "being at the right time". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in timeliness?

timeliness has 3 syllables: time-li-ness. The stress falls on "time". In IPA it is /ˈtaɪmlinəs/.

What is another word for timeliness?

Close synonyms include seasonableness, opportuneness, patness. 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 timeliness?

The recorded antonyms are untimeliness.

Is timeliness a common word?

timeliness 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.