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platness

platness noun: flatness.

Noun

platness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) Flatness.
    • Like Socrates, who took a mischievous delight in shocking squeamish people by the homeliness of his illustrations, and the platness of his diction, Jesus indulged over and over again in popular imagery and language of the plainest sort.1912 March, Elijah GreenLeaf, “What Jesus though of Revolt”, in The Westminster Review, volume 177, number 3, page 332
    • The bottom of the valley between Cueva de Pérez and la Mejicana […] is much broader and flatter than the bottom of the same valley […] (Fig 5. and Fig 6.)
      Fig. 5. [caption] Quebrada de la Mejicana. (Valley between Cueva de Pérez and the Mines.) Obs. the slide rock and the platness and broadness of...1921, José M. Sabral, “Some Physiographic Notes on the Sierra de Famatina”, in Geografiska Annaler, volume 3, pages 322–323

Origin of platness

From plat + -ness.

Questions about platness

What does platness mean?
Platness means flatness.
What part of speech is platness?
Platness is a noun.

Words near platness in the dictionary

  1. platitudinously
  2. platitudinousness
  3. platitudise
  4. platly
  5. Platner
  6. platness
  7. Plato
  8. Plato's Cave
  9. Plato's problem
  10. platometer
  11. platometers

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