CONCAVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does concaveness mean? 

• CONCAVENESS (noun)
  The noun CONCAVENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property possessed by a concave shape

  Familiarity information: CONCAVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONCAVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property possessed by a concave shape

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

concaveness; concavity

Hypernyms ("concaveness" is a kind of...):

configuration; conformation; contour; form; shape (any spatial attributes (especially as defined by outline))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "concaveness"):

hollowness (the property of having a sunken area)

Derivation:

concave (curving inward)