unpleasantness

Other forms of unpleasantness

plural

unpleasantnesses·

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 unpleasantness

What does unpleasantness mean?

unpleasantness means "the feeling caused by disagreeable stimuli; one pole of a continuum of states of feeling". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in unpleasantness?

unpleasantness has 4 syllables: un-pleas-ant-ness. The stress falls on "pleas". In IPA it is /ənˈplɛzəntnəs/.

What is the opposite of unpleasantness?

The recorded antonyms are pleasantness, pleasantness.

Is unpleasantness a common word?

unpleasantness is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.