tipsiness

Other forms of tipsiness

plural

tipsinesses·

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 tipsiness

What does tipsiness mean?

tipsiness means "a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol".

How many syllables are in tipsiness?

tipsiness has 3 syllables: tip-si-ness. The stress falls on "tip".

What is another word for tipsiness?

Close synonyms include drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, insobriety. 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 tipsiness a common word?

tipsiness 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.