UNEVENNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unevenness mean? 

• UNEVENNESS (noun)
  The noun UNEVENNESS has 2 senses:

1. the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity

2. the quality of being unbalanced

  Familiarity information: UNEVENNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEVENNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

unevenness; variability

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

irregularity; unregularity (not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals)

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

rockiness (the quality of abounding in rocks and stones)

ruggedness (the quality of being topologically uneven)

jaggedness (something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface)

patchiness (unevenness in quality or performance)

waviness (unevenness produced by waves or wrinkles)

Antonym:

evenness (a quality of uniformity and lack of variation)

Derivation:

uneven (lacking consistency)

uneven (not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being unbalanced

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

inequality (lack of equality)

Antonym:

evenness (the quality of being balanced)

Derivation:

uneven ((of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents)

 Context examples 

I have not been working uninterruptedly, he replied, I have been assisting Miss Fairfax in trying to make her instrument stand steadily, it was not quite firm; an unevenness in the floor, I believe.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)