roundednessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

roundedness (usually uncountable, 複数形 roundednesses)

1. The quality of being rounded.
   • 2008 April 13, Andrew O’Hagan, “N + 2”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     He has lots of girl trouble, too, and he hungers for status and sits around at Harvard worrying about “the roundedness of his character.”

2. (phonetics) The quality of a sound, especially a vowel, of being rounded or unrounded.

   Coordinate terms: height (vertical dimension), backness (horizontal dimension), length, nasalization, reduction