unrighteousness

Other forms of unrighteousness

plural

unrighteousnesses·

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 unrighteousness

What does unrighteousness mean?

unrighteousness means "failure to adhere to moral principles".

How many syllables are in unrighteousness?

unrighteousness has 5 syllables and divides as un-righ-te-ou-sness 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 unrighteousness?

The recorded antonyms are righteousness.

Is unrighteousness a common word?

unrighteousness 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.