untidiness

Other forms of untidiness

plural

untidinesses·

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 untidiness

What does untidiness mean?

untidiness means "the condition of being untidy". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in untidiness?

untidiness has 4 syllables: un-ti-di-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for untidiness?

Close synonyms include messiness. 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 untidiness?

The recorded antonyms are tidiness, tidiness.

Is untidiness a common word?

untidiness 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.