unresponsiveness

Other forms of unresponsiveness

plural

unresponsivenesses·

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 unresponsiveness

What does unresponsiveness mean?

unresponsiveness means "the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond quickly or with emotion to people or events".

How many syllables are in unresponsiveness?

unresponsiveness has 6 syllables and divides as un-re-spon-si-ve-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 unresponsiveness?

Close synonyms include deadness. 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 unresponsiveness?

The recorded antonyms are responsiveness.

Is unresponsiveness a common word?

unresponsiveness 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.