windiness

Other forms of windiness

plural

windinesses·

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 windiness

What does windiness mean?

windiness means "a mildly windy state of the air". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in windiness?

windiness has 3 syllables: win-di-ness. The stress falls on "win".

What is another word for windiness?

Close synonyms include breeziness, prolixity, prolixness, long-windedness, wordiness. 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 windiness a common word?

windiness 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.