ROUNDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roundness mean? 

• ROUNDNESS (noun)
  The noun ROUNDNESS has 4 senses:

1. the fullness of a tone of voice

2. the quality of being round numbers

3. the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular

4. the bodily property of being well rounded

  Familiarity information: ROUNDNESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROUNDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The fullness of a tone of voice

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

rotundity; roundness

Context example:

there is a musky roundness to his wordiness

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

tone; tone of voice (the quality of a person's voice)

Derivation:

round ((of sounds) full and rich)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being round numbers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

he gave us the results in round numbers, but their roundness didn't affect the point he was making

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

figure; number (the property possessed by a sum or total or indefinite quantity of units or individuals)

Derivation:

round ((mathematics) expressed to the nearest integer, ten, hundred, or thousand)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("roundness" 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 "roundness"):

globosity; globularness; rotundity; rotundness; sphericalness; sphericity (the roundness of a 3-dimensional object)

cylindricality; cylindricalness (the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder)

circularity; disk shape (the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure)

Antonym:

angularity (the property possessed by a shape that has angles)

Derivation:

round (having the shape or form of a circle)

Sense 4

Meaning:

The bodily property of being well rounded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

embonpoint; plumpness; roundness

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

corpulency; fleshiness; obesity (more than average fatness)

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

chubbiness; pudginess; rolypoliness; tubbiness (the property of having a plump and round body)

buxomness (the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed)

 Context examples 

A question about whether an individual has or had an increased roundness of their face.

(Have Increased Roundness of Face, NCI Thesaurus)

"That's my good girl. You do try to fight off your shyness, and I love you for it. Fighting faults isn't easy, as I know, and a cheery word kind of gives a lift. Thank you, Mother," And Jo gave the thin cheek a grateful kiss, more precious to Mrs. March than if it had given back the rosy roundness of her youth.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

In the process, they were able to identify ranges in the disc’s mass, its ‘roundness’ (or eccentricity), and forced gradual shifts in its orientations (or precession rate), which faithfully reproduced the outlier TNO orbits.

(Mystery orbits in outermost reaches of solar system not caused by ‘Planet Nine’, University of Cambridge)

It ill becomes me to prate too much of what I have endured for the faith, and yet, since you have observed it, I must tell you that this thickness and roundness of the waist is caused by a dropsy brought on by over-haste in journeying from the house of Pilate to the Mount of Olives.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)