Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

counterintuitiveness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: coun-ter-in-tu-itive-ness
IPA

25

Scrabble Score

20

Letters

6

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The property of being counterintuitive.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"But John Latham, a senior research associate at the National Center for Atmospheric Research, said that there was simply no money for geoengineering, possibly because there’s a certain counterintuitiveness to shooting particles into the atmosphere."

Etymology

From counterintuitive + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: counterintuitive

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does counterintuitiveness mean?: The property of being counterintuitive.
Where does counterintuitiveness come from?: From counterintuitive + -ness.

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