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ovalness

ovalness noun: the quality of being oval.

Noun

ovalness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being oval.
    • Transitory as was this glance, I observed a slightness in her figure, an ovalness in her face, and a vermillion tinge in her cheek, so unlike the round and rosy full-blown look of health which had so well become her when she sung lullaby to her doll on the hay.1841, Lucy Lyttelton Cameron, Englishwomen in past and present times, page 138

Origin of ovalness

From oval + -ness.

Questions about ovalness

What does ovalness mean?
Ovalness means the quality of being oval.
What part of speech is ovalness?
Ovalness is a noun.

Words near ovalness in the dictionary

  1. ovalizing
  2. Ovalle
  3. ovallike
  4. ovalling
  5. ovally
  6. ovalness
  7. ovalocyte
  8. ovalocytes
  9. ovalocytic
  10. ovalocytosis
  11. ovalocytotic

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