roundedness

English

Etymology

From rounded +‎ -ness.

Noun

roundedness (usually uncountable, plural roundednesses)

1. The quality of being rounded.
   • 2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in The New York Times Book Review‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 December 2024:

     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

Translations

the quality of being rounded

phonetics: the quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded

• Hungarian: ajakkerekítés (hu), kerekség (hu), kerekítettség

See also

• labialization