perpendicularity

1. 1.

   the relation of opposition between things at right angles

   Synonymsorthogonalityorthogonal opposition

   Broaderopposition
2. 2.

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

   Broaderrectangularity

Other forms of perpendicularity

plural

perpendicularities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about perpendicularity

What does perpendicularity mean?

perpendicularity means "the relation of opposition between things at right angles". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in perpendicularity?

perpendicularity has 7 syllables: per-pen-di-cu-la-ri-ty. The stress falls on "la".

What is another word for perpendicularity?

Close synonyms include orthogonality, orthogonal opposition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is perpendicularity a common word?

perpendicularity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.