imperiousness
noun
imperiousness is a noun meaning “The quality of being imperious” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled I-M-P-E-R-I-O-U-S-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 81 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of imperiousness is imperiousnesses.
What does imperiousness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being imperious
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce imperiousness?
- US
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Wodencafe-imperiousness.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of imperiousness
- imperiousnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is imperiousness?
Imperiousness appears about once in every 81 million words in written English, the 286,585th 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).
Imperiousness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense being imperious:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| Spanish | imperiosidad |
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.
Where does imperiousness come from?
From imperious + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).