OBLONGNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

The property of being shaped like a rectangle

Synonyms:

oblongness; rectangularity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

angularity (the property possessed by a shape that has angles)

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

orthogonality (the quality of lying or intersecting at right angles)

perpendicularity (the quality of being at right angles to a given line or plane (especially the plane of the horizon))

squareness (the property of being shaped like a square)

Derivation:

oblong (deviating from a square or circle or sphere by being elongated in one direction)