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indefiniteness

noun

indefiniteness is spelled I-N-D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-N-E-S-S: 14 letters. It appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, indefiniteness means “The characteristic of being indefinite” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in indefiniteness?

Letters14: I-N-D-E-F-I-N-I-T-E-N-E-S-S
In writingabout once in every 71 million words; the 265,644th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is indefiniteness?

Indefiniteness appears about once in every 71 million words in written English, the 265,644th 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).

What does indefiniteness mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The characteristic of being indefinite.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Indefiniteness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense characteristic:

LanguageWords
Spanishindefinitud

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 indefiniteness come from?

From indefinite + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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