roundedness

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Etymology

rounded +‎ -ness

Noun

roundedness (usually uncountable, plural roundednesses)

  1. The quality of being rounded.
    • 2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in New York Times‎:
      He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.”
  2. (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

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