SQUARENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does squareness mean? 

• SQUARENESS (noun)
  The noun SQUARENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of being shaped like a square

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SQUARENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being shaped like a square

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

oblongness; rectangularity (the property of being shaped like a rectangle)

Derivation:

square (having four equal sides and four right angles or forming a right angle)

 Context examples 

Mrs Croft, though neither tall nor fat, had a squareness, uprightness, and vigour of form, which gave importance to her person.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

His arms were long and slingy, his shoulders loose and yet powerful, with the downward slant which is a surer index of power than squareness can be.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was no mistaking the poise of the head, the squareness of the shoulders, the sharpness of the features.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A squareness about the lower part of his face, and the dotted indication of the strong black beard he shaved close every day, reminded me of the wax-work that had travelled into our neighbourhood some half-a-year before.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

His shape, now divested of cloak, I perceived harmonised in squareness with his physiognomy: I suppose it was a good figure in the athletic sense of the term—broad chested and thin flanked, though neither tall nor graceful.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)