unfriendliness

Other forms of unfriendliness

plural

unfriendlinesses·

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 unfriendliness

What does unfriendliness mean?

unfriendliness means "dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unfriendliness?

unfriendliness has 4 syllables and divides as un-friend-li-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 the opposite of unfriendliness?

The recorded antonyms are friendliness, friendliness.

Is unfriendliness a common word?

unfriendliness 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.