uprightness

Other forms of uprightness

plural

uprightnesses·

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 uprightness

What does uprightness mean?

uprightness means "the property of being upright in posture". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in uprightness?

uprightness has 3 syllables: u-pright-ness. The stress falls on "u".

What is another word for uprightness?

Close synonyms include erectness, verticality, verticalness, erectness, rectitude. 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 uprightness a common word?

uprightness 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.