squeamishness
noun
squeamishness is a noun meaning “The quality of being squeamish” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled S-Q-U-E-A-M-I-S-H-N-E-S-S and has 3 syllables, and it appears about once in every 19 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of squeamishness is squeamishnesses.
What does squeamishness mean?
noun
- 1
The quality of being squeamish
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce squeamishness?
Squeamishness has 3 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 squeamishness
- squeamishnesses plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is squeamishness?
Squeamishness appears about once in every 19 million words in written English, the 131,834th 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).
Squeamishness in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense quality of being squeamish:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | Zimperlichkeit |
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 squeamishness come from?
From squeamish + -ness.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).