roundedness
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editroundedness (usually uncountable, plural roundednesses)
- The quality of being rounded.
- 2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in New York Times[1]:
- He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.”
- (phonetics) The quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded.
- Coordinate terms: (vertical dimension) height, (horizontal dimension) backness, length, nasalization, reduction
Translations
editthe quality of being rounded
phonetics: the quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded
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