unhappiness

Other forms of unhappiness

plural

unhappinesses·

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 unhappiness

What does unhappiness mean?

unhappiness means "emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unhappiness?

unhappiness has 4 syllables: un-hap-pi-ness. The stress falls on "hap". In IPA it is /ənˈhæpinɪs/.

What is another word for unhappiness?

Close synonyms include sadness. 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 unhappiness?

The recorded antonyms are happiness.

Is unhappiness a common word?

unhappiness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.