DENSENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does denseness mean? 

• DENSENESS (noun)
  The noun DENSENESS has 3 senses:

1. the quality of being mentally slow and limited

2. the spatial property of being crowded together

3. the amount per unit size

  Familiarity information: DENSENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DENSENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being mentally slow and limited

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

denseness; dumbness; slow-wittedness

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

stupidity (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)

Derivation:

dense (slow to learn or understand; lacking intellectual acuity)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The spatial property of being crowded together

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

compactness; concentration; denseness; density; tightness

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

spacing; spatial arrangement (the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them)

Derivation:

dense (hard to pass through because of dense growth)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The amount per unit size

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

denseness; density

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

compactness (the consistency of a compact solid)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "denseness"):

bits per inch; bpi (a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium)

flux; flux density ((physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area)

absorbance; optical density; photographic density; transmission density ((physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation)

low density; rarity; tenuity (a rarified quality)

relative density (the ratio of the density of something to the density of a standard)

Derivation:

dense (having high relative density or specific gravity)