trueness

Other forms of trueness

plural

truenesses·

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 trueness

What does trueness mean?

trueness means "conformity to reality or actuality". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in trueness?

trueness has 2 syllables: true-ness. The stress falls on "true".

What is another word for trueness?

Close synonyms include truth, the true, verity, loyalty. 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 trueness a common word?

trueness 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.