wrongness

Other forms of wrongness

plural

wrongnesses·

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 wrongness

What does wrongness mean?

wrongness means "inappropriate conduct". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in wrongness?

wrongness has 2 syllables and divides as wrong-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for wrongness?

Close synonyms include inappropriateness, incorrectness. 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.

What is the opposite of wrongness?

The recorded antonyms are rightness, rightness.

Is wrongness a common word?

wrongness 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.