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unevenness

unevenness noun: the quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity.

Noun

unevenness (countable and uncountable, plural unevennesses)

  1. (uncountable) The quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity.
    • The unevenness of his voice betrayed his nervousness.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being uneven.
  3. A rough or uneven thing.
    • His chinne, a thorny hairy unevennesse, / Doth threaten, and some daily change possesse.1633, John Donne, Sapho to Philænis

unevenness meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Sanskrit

unevenness in Tamil

ஏகதேசம், கரடு, எக்கச்சக்கம், கரடுமுருடு

unevenness in Urdu

غیرمساوی پن, غیریکسانیت, ناہمواری, نشیب و فراز, اونچا نیچا پن

unevenness in Malayalam

unevenness; irregularity
വിഷമം viṣamaṁ

unevenness in Sanskrit

unevenness, roughness
कण्टक káṇṭaka

Forms of unevenness

pluralunevennesses

Origin of unevenness

From Middle English unevennesse, equivalent to uneven + -ness.

Questions about unevenness

What does unevenness mean?
Unevenness means the quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity.
What is unevenness in Tamil?
Unevenness in Tamil is ஏகதேசம், கரடு, எக்கச்சக்கம். See Unevenness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is unevenness?
Unevenness is a noun.
What is the plural of unevenness?
The plural of unevenness is unevennesses.

Words near unevenness in the dictionary

  1. uneveness
  2. unevenest
  3. unevenhandedness
  4. unevening
  5. unevenly
  6. unevenness
  7. unevennesses
  8. unevens
  9. unevent
  10. uneventful
  11. uneventfully

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unevenness (page history and authors); unevenness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unevenness (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); വിഷമം (Malayalam) (page history and authors); कण्टक (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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