uncleanness

Other forms of uncleanness

plural

uncleannesses·

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 uncleanness

What does uncleanness mean?

uncleanness means "the state of being unsanitary".

How many syllables are in uncleanness?

uncleanness has 4 syllables: un-cle-an-ness. The stress falls on "cle".

What is another word for uncleanness?

Close synonyms include dirtiness. 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 uncleanness a common word?

uncleanness 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.