unmercifulness

Questions about unmercifulness

What does unmercifulness mean?

unmercifulness means "inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving".

How many syllables are in unmercifulness?

unmercifulness has 5 syllables and divides as un-mer-ci-ful-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 another word for unmercifulness?

Close synonyms include mercilessness. 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 unmercifulness a common word?

unmercifulness 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.