disingenuousness
noun
disingenuousness is a noun meaning “The state or quality of being disingenuous” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-I-S-I-N-G-E-N-U-O-U-S-N-E-S-S and has 6 syllables, and it appears about once in every 30 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does disingenuousness mean?
noun
- 1
The state or quality of being disingenuous.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce disingenuousness?
Disingenuousness has 6 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of disingenuousness
- disingenuity
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is disingenuousness?
Disingenuousness appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Disingenuousness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense state or quality of being disingenuous:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Unaufrichtigkeit, Unehrlichkeit, Unredlichkeit, Hinterlistigkeit |
| Spanish | desingenuidad |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.