roundedness
nounEtymology From rounded + -ness.
1
Usually The quality of being rounded.
- He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.”2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in New York Times:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Phonetics, Phonology, Sciences Usually The quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded.
- Related terms
- labialization