Word Meanings - ROUNDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc. 2. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.

Additional info about word: ROUNDNESS

1. The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc. 2. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone. 3. Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion. Syn. -- Circularity; sphericity; globosity; globularity; globularness; orbicularness; cylindricity; fullness; plumpness; rotundity.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ROUNDNESS)

• Rotundity
• Roundness
• convexity
• circularity
• sphericity
• globosity
• prominence
• protuberance
• intumescence

Related words: (words related to ROUNDNESS)

• CIRCULARITY
  The quality or state of being circular; a circular form.
• INTUMESCENCE
  1. The act or process of swelling or enlarging; also, the state of being swollen; expansion; tumidity; especially, the swelling up of bodies under the action of heat. The intumescence of nations. Johnson. 2. Anything swollen or enlarged,
• PROTUBERANCE
  That which is protuberant swelled or pushed beyond the surrounding or adjacent surface; a swelling or tumor on the body; a prominence; a bunch or knob; an elevation. Solar protuberances , certain rose-colored masses on the limb of the sun which
• PROMINENCE; PROMINENCY
  1. The quality or state of being prominent; a standing out from something; conspicuousness. 2. That which is prominent; a protuberance. Solar prominences. See Solar Protuberances, under Protuberance.
• GLOBOSITY
  Sphericity. Ray.
• SPHERICITY
  The quality or state of being spherial; roundness; as, the sphericity of the planets, or of a drop of water.
• ROUNDNESS
  1. The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc. 2. Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.
• ROTUNDITY
  1. The state or quality of being rotu Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! Shak. 2. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness. For the more rotundity of the number and grace of the matter, it passeth for a full thousand. Fuller. A boldness
• CONVEXITY
  The state of being convex; the exterior surface of a convex body; roundness. A smooth, uniform convexity and rotundity of a globe. Bentley.
• OROTUNDITY
  The orotund mode of intonation.