Home › Words › N › nonstressnonstressnonstress means the absence of stress.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, nonstress ranks #27,096 of 42,752 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom non- + stress.nounThe absence of stress.e.g.“In addition, the line-turn can act as a virtual syllable, in iambics creating promotions from two instead of three nonstresses at the end of a line [...]” — 2002, Graham Parry, Joad Raymond, Milton and the Terms of Liberty, →ISBN, page 40:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).