wastefulness

Other forms of wastefulness

plural

wastefulnesses·

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 wastefulness

What does wastefulness mean?

wastefulness means "the trait of wasting resources". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wastefulness?

wastefulness has 3 syllables: wa-steful-ness. The stress falls on "wa". In IPA it is /ˈweɪstfəlnəs/.

What is another word for wastefulness?

Close synonyms include thriftlessness, waste, waste, dissipation. 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 wastefulness a common word?

wastefulness 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.