OBLONGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oblongness mean? 

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

1. the property of being shaped like a rectangle

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• OBLONGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being shaped like a rectangle

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

oblongness; rectangularity

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

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

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

orthogonality (the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles)

perpendicularity (the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon))

squareness (the property of being shaped like a square)

Derivation:

oblong (deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction)