EVENNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does evenness mean? 

• EVENNESS (noun)
  The noun EVENNESS has 3 senses:

1. the parity of even numbers (divisible by two)

2. a quality of uniformity and lack of variation

3. the quality of being balanced

  Familiarity information: EVENNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EVENNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The parity of even numbers (divisible by two)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

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

parity ((mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A quality of uniformity and lack of variation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

evenness; invariability

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

regularity (the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate)

Attribute:

even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))

uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)

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

smoothness (the quality of having a level and even surface)

Antonym:

unevenness (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)

Derivation:

even (occurring at fixed intervals)

even (symmetrically arranged)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The quality of being balanced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

equality (the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status)

Antonym:

unevenness (the quality of being unbalanced)

Derivation:

even (equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced)

even (of the score in a contest)

even (being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with))

 Context examples 

And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Lacking perfect symmetry or evenness.

(Irregular, NCI Thesaurus)

The perpetual commendations of the lady, either on his handwriting, or on the evenness of his lines, or on the length of his letter, with the perfect unconcern with which her praises were received, formed a curious dialogue, and was exactly in union with her opinion of each.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)