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backness

/ˈbæk.nɪs/

backness noun: quality of being a back vowel.

Noun

backness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being a back vowel.
    • The most important aspects of vowel quality are tongue height, frontness/backness and lip rounding.1996, Andrew Spencer, Phonology: theory and description, page 25
    Antonyms:
    frontness
  2. A quality of vowels, indicating the horizontal position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth (front, near-front, central, near-back, or back).
    Synonyms:
    frontness

backness meaning in Bengali

backness in Bengali

পশ্চাৎ স্বরধ্বনি হওয়ার গুণ, স্বরধ্বনির একটি গুণ

Synonyms of backness

Antonyms

Origin of backness

From back + -ness.

Questions about backness

What does backness mean?
Backness means quality of being a back vowel.
What is backness in Bengali?
Backness in Bengali is পশ্চাৎ স্বরধ্বনি হওয়ার গুণ, স্বরধ্বনির একটি গুণ. See Backness meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is backness?
Backness is a noun.
How do you pronounce backness?
Backness is pronounced /ˈbæk.nɪs/.

Words near backness in the dictionary

  1. backmost
  2. backmounted
  3. backmutation
  4. backmutations
  5. backne
  6. backness
  7. backoff
  8. backoffs
  9. backorder
  10. backordered
  11. backordering

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Adapted from Wiktionary: backness (page history and authors); backness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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