Rotundity

2 definitions found

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

  Rotundity \Ro*tund"i*ty\, n. [L. rotunditas: cf. F.
     rotondit['e].]
     1. The state or quality of being rotu?; roundness;
        sphericity; circularity.
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              Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! --Shak.
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     2. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.
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              For the more rotundity of the number and grace of
              the matter, it passeth for a full thousand.
                                                    --Fuller.
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              A boldness and rotundity of speech.   --Hawthorne.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  rotundity
       n : the roundness of a 3-dimensional object [syn: {sphericity},
           {sphericalness}, {globosity}, {globularness}]