three-dimensionality

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Noun

three-dimensionality (usually uncountable, plural three-dimensionalities)

The state or characteristic of occupying, or of appearing to occupy, three dimensions of space.
- 2000 October 15, Fred B. Adelson, “Art Review: Perkins Shows Its Reach Is Regional In Exhibition”, in The New York Times‎^[1], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 January 2025:
  [T]here are several fascinating mixed-media pieces that give subtle three-dimensionality to predominately flat surfaces.
(idiomatic, of a person or fictional character) Complexity and depth of character.
- 2005 April 1, Desson Thomson, “’In My Country’: Unjustifiable”, in The Washington Post‎^[2], Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 24 January 2025:
  Gleeson, a brilliant performer, shows us the face of evil but with the mitigating circumstances of humanity. But his three-dimensionality is jarring; at odds with the wooden movie around him.
- 2009 May 28, Stephen Adams, “Philip Pullman helps understanding of theology, says Archbishop of Canterbury”, in The Daily Telegraph‎^[3], London: Telegraph Media Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 25 October 2025:
  Dr. Williams . . . commended his "search for some way of talking about human value, human depth and three-dimensionality, that doesn't depend on God."
- 2010, Hal Erickson, “Tisha Sterling”, in The New York Times‎^[4], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 9 March 2016:
  In 1968, she costarred with Clint Eastwood in the feature film Coogan's Bluff, bringing three-dimensionality to the otherwise cliched role of a hippie.

Synonyms

tridimensionality

Related terms

three-dimensional

Translations

state or characteristic