wickedness

Other forms of wickedness

plural

wickednesses·

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 wickedness

What does wickedness mean?

wickedness means "morally objectionable behavior". That is the primary sense; the word has 5 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wickedness?

wickedness has 3 syllables: wic-ked-ness. The stress falls on "wic". In IPA it is /ˈwɪkədnəs/.

What is another word for wickedness?

Close synonyms include evil, immorality, iniquity, darkness, dark. 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 wickedness a common word?

wickedness is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.