WAVINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does waviness mean? 

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

1. (of hair) a tendency to curl

2. unevenness produced by waves or wrinkles

  Familiarity information: WAVINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WAVINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(of hair) a tendency to curl

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

curliness; waviness

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

curvature; curve (the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface)

Attribute:

curly ((of hair) having curls or waves)

straight ((of hair) having no waves or curls)

Derivation:

wavy ((of hair) having waves)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unevenness produced by waves or wrinkles

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

unevenness; variability (the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity)

Derivation:

wavy (uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves)

 Context examples 

The ears are long with abundant feathering, and it has a silky coat, sometimes with a slight waviness that comes in ruby, black and tan, tri-color and blenheim (chestnut on a pearly-white background).

(Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, NCI Thesaurus)