vehemence

Other forms of vehemence

plural

vehemences·

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 vehemence

What does vehemence mean?

vehemence means "intensity or forcefulness of expression". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in vehemence?

vehemence has 3 syllables: ve-he-mence. The stress falls on "ve". In IPA it is /ˈviəməns/.

What is another word for vehemence?

Close synonyms include emphasis, ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury. 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 vehemence a common word?

vehemence 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.