triteness

Questions about triteness

What does triteness mean?

triteness means "unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed".

How many syllables are in triteness?

triteness has 3 syllables and divides as tri-te-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for triteness?

Close synonyms include staleness. 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 triteness a common word?

triteness 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.