virtuousness

1. 1.

   the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong

   Synonymsvirtuemoral excellence

   Broadergood

Other forms of virtuousness

plural

virtuousnesses·

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 virtuousness

What does virtuousness mean?

virtuousness means "the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong".

How many syllables are in virtuousness?

virtuousness has 4 syllables: vir-tu-ou-sness. The stress falls on "tu".

What is another word for virtuousness?

Close synonyms include virtue, moral excellence. 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 virtuousness a common word?

virtuousness 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.