PROPORTIONATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does proportionateness mean? 

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

1. the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PROPORTIONATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

commensurateness; correspondence; proportionateness

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

proportionality (a ratio of two quantities that is constant)

Derivation:

proportionate (agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree)

proportionate (being in due proportion)

proportionate (exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities)