roundness

Other forms of roundness

plural

roundnesses·

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 roundness

What does roundness mean?

roundness means "the fullness of a tone of voice". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in roundness?

roundness has 2 syllables: round-ness. The stress falls on "round".

What is another word for roundness?

Close synonyms include rotundity, plumpness, embonpoint. 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.

What is the opposite of roundness?

The recorded antonyms are angularity.

Is roundness a common word?

roundness 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.