weatherliness

1. 1.

   (of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind)

   “the Spanish ships had superior speed and weatherliness”

   Broadermaneuverability

   sailing vessel

Other forms of weatherliness

plural

weatherlinesses·

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 weatherliness

What does weatherliness mean?

weatherliness means "(of a sailing vessel) the quality of being able to sail close to the wind with little drift to the leeward (even in a stiff wind)".

How many syllables are in weatherliness?

weatherliness has 5 syllables: we-a-ther-li-ness. The stress falls on "ther".

Is weatherliness a common word?

weatherliness 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.