UNEVENNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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)

Meaning:

The quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity

Synonyms:

unevenness; variability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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)