roundedness

English

Etymology

rounded +‎ -ness

Noun

roundedness (usually uncountable, plural roundednesses)

The quality of being rounded.
- 2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in New York Times‎:
  He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.”
(phonetics) The quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded.
Coordinate terms: (vertical dimension) height, (horizontal dimension) backness, length, nasalization, reduction

Translations

the quality of being rounded

phonetics: the quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded

Hungarian: ajakkerekítés (hu), kerekség (hu), kerekítettség

See also

labialization

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