yellowness

Other forms of yellowness

plural

yellownesses·

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 yellowness

What does yellowness mean?

yellowness means "yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons".

How many syllables are in yellowness?

yellowness has 3 syllables and divides as yel-low-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 yellowness?

Close synonyms include yellow. 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 yellowness a common word?

yellowness 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.