Hypertext Webster Gateway: "rotundity"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Rotundity \Ro*tund"i*ty\, n. [L. rotunditas: cf. F.
rotondit['e].]
1. The state or quality of being rotu?; roundness;
sphericity; circularity.

Smite flat the thick rotundity o'the world! --Shak.

2. Hence, completeness; entirety; roundness.

For the more rotundity of the number and grace of
the matter, it passeth for a full thousand.
--Fuller.

A boldness and rotundity of speech. --Hawthorne.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

rotundity
n : the roundness of a 3-dimensional object [syn: {sphericity},
{sphericalness}, {globosity}, {globularness}]


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