unevenness

Other forms of unevenness

plural

unevennesses·

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 unevenness

What does unevenness mean?

unevenness means "the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unevenness?

unevenness has 4 syllables: u-ne-ven-ness. The stress falls on "ne".

What is another word for unevenness?

Close synonyms include variability. 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 unevenness?

The recorded antonyms are evenness, evenness.

Is unevenness a common word?

unevenness 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.