wanness

Other forms of wanness

plural

wannesses·

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 wanness

What does wanness mean?

wanness means "unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress)".

How many syllables are in wanness?

wanness has 2 syllables: wan-ness. The stress falls on "wan".

What is another word for wanness?

Close synonyms include lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness. 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 wanness a common word?

wanness 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.