What is another word for rectangularity?

Pronunciation: [ɹɛktˌanɡjʊlˈaɹɪti] (IPA)

Rectangularity is a term that refers to the shape of objects that are rectangular or possess rectangular qualities. There are several synonyms for rectangularity such as squareness, oblongness, and angularity. Squareness refers to the state of being square, an object that has equal length and width that create right angles. Oblongness refers to a shape that is rectangular but elongated, with one set of sides longer than the other. Angularity refers to the sharpness of angles created by rectangularity. Other synonyms for rectangularity include geometricity, rightness, and orthogonality. These synonyms can be used interchangeably to describe the shape or quality of rectangular objects.

What are the hypernyms for Rectangularity?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Rectangularity

As a first and obvious application of this mode of geographic study of cities appears the criticism, and; when possible, the amendment of the city's plan, the monotonous rectangularity of the American city, and the petty irregularity more common in our own, being alike uneconomic and inartistic because ungeographic, irrational because irregional.
"Civics: as Applied Sociology"
Patrick Geddes
In a flat and uniform country, road systems may well be rectangular, following section-lines and intermediate lines; but the rectangularity is not the essential merit,-it is only a serviceable way of subdividing the resources.
"The Holy Earth"
L. H. Bailey
The stranger was a very tall man in dark clothes, who gave an instant impression of long rectangularity.
"The Secret Witness"
George Gibbs

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