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COMMENSURATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commensurateness mean? 

COMMENSURATENESS (noun)
  The noun COMMENSURATENESS has 1 sense:

1. the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amountplay

  Familiarity information: COMMENSURATENESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


COMMENSURATENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Synonyms:

commensurateness; correspondence; proportionateness

Hypernyms ("commensurateness" is a kind of...):

proportionality (a ratio of two quantities that is constant)

Derivation:

commensurate (corresponding in size or degree or extent)


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