Evenness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Evenness \E"ven*ness\, n.
     The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness;
     horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness;
     equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of
     surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of
     temper, of condition.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           It had need be something extraordinary, that must
           warrant an ordinary person to rise higher than his own
           evenness.                                --Jer. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  evenness
       n 1: a quality of uniformity and lack of variation [syn: {invariability}]
            [ant: {unevenness}, {unevenness}]
       2: the quality of being balanced [ant: {unevenness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  125 Moby Thesaurus words for "evenness":
     abnegation, abstinence, accordance, balance, bilateral symmetry,
     calm, calmness, clockwork regularity, coequality, coextension,
     conformity, congruity, conservatism, consistency, consonance,
     constancy, constraint, continence, continuity, control, cool,
     correspondence, dispassion, downiness, dynamic symmetry,
     equability, equality, equanimity, equation, equilibrium, equipoise,
     equipollence, equiponderance, equity, equivalence, equivalency,
     eurythmics, eurythmy, finish, flatness, flushness,
     frictionlessness, gentleness, glabriety, glabrousness, glossiness,
     golden mean, greasiness, happy medium, harmony, homogeneity,
     horizontalism, horizontality, horizontalness, identity,
     impartiality, judiciousness, juste-milieu, justice, keeping,
     lenity, levelness, likeness, lubricity, meden agan, methodicalness,
     middle way, mildness, moderateness, moderation, moderationism,
     monolithism, multilateral symmetry, neutrality, nonviolence,
     nothing in excess, oiliness, pacifism, par, parallelism, parity,
     persistence, planeness, poise, polarity, proportion,
     proportionality, prudence, punctuality, regularity, repetition,
     repose, restraint, satininess, self-abnegation, self-control,
     self-denial, self-restraint, serenity, shapeliness, silkiness,
     sleekness, slickness, slipperiness, smoothness, sobriety,
     stability, steadfastness, steadiness, suavity, symmetricalness,
     symmetry, systematicalness, temperance, temperateness,
     tranquillity, trilateral symmetry, unexcessiveness, unextravagance,
     unextremeness, uniformity, unity, unruffledness, velvetiness,
     via media