Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or property of being spherical; sphericity.

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  • noun The quality or state of being spherical.

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  • noun the roundness of a 3-dimensional object

Etymologies

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From spherical +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • A real, honest, live boob has its own attraction but in its hemi-sphericalness, it could never replace a ball.

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  • The sequence of reasonings which I have just summarized deserves our profound admiration; however, they were not sufficient to carry conviction owing to the uncertainty which in spite of everything existed not only in the simplifying assumptions (sphericalness of the molecules, for example), but in the very hypotheses on which the reasoning is based.

    Jean Baptiste Perrin - Nobel Lecture 1965

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