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OBLONGNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being shaped like a rectangle
Synonyms:
oblongness; rectangularity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("oblongness" is a kind of...):
angularity (the property possessed by a shape that has angles)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oblongness"):
orthogonality (the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles)
perpendicularity (the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon))
squareness (the property of being shaped like a square)
Derivation:
oblong (deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction)
