🥣 Thick with pieces 📺 Uneven or rough 💾 Divided in blocks

chunkiness

5.0

A broken, uneven quality that makes movement or sound stop and start

noun
/ˈtʃʌŋkɪnəs/

: irregularidad

The chunkiness of the animation made it feel less realistic and more of a cartoon.

Examples

The chunkiness of his movements indicated that he was still learning how to dance.
She noticed the chunkiness in the music, with different notes standing out in a disjointed manner.
Make sure that you're, you know, taking the tip of the wand and wiggling the chunkiness off the tip because it seems to continue to do that.

Synonyms

lumpiness

vschunkiness

2 4.4

The feel of many small bumps on a surface

is about larger separate masses breaking smoothness rather than fine roughness

unevenness

vschunkiness

1 5.1

A state in which something is not level or smooth

is about being broken into noticeable parts rather than general irregularity

bumpiness

vschunkiness

1 4.6

An uneven surface with many bumps

focuses on large visible parts breaking smoothness rather than many small irregularities

blockiness

vschunkiness

7.5

Large square shapes that make a building or object look chunky and not detailed

is about being divided into visible parts rather than smooth continuity

brokenness

vschunkiness

6.5

Speech that is not smooth and is hard to follow

stresses visible divided parts rather than simply being incomplete or missing

choppiness

vschunkiness

Specialized

5.3

Video or animation that moves in short, sudden jumps

is about being split into noticeable parts rather than sudden stops

patchiness

vschunkiness

7.1

Uneven quality or performance across different parts

is about physical division into parts rather than uneven quality or coverage

raggedness

vschunkiness

6.2

An uneven, rough surface or edge you can feel

describes separate noticeable pieces rather than merely rough edges or borders

coarseness

vschunkiness

4.1

A rough texture that is not smooth

is about being broken into visible parts rather than general texture roughness

Antonyms

continuity

52 4.7

A situation where things stay the same or keep happening without big changes

smoothness

1 2.6

How something works without pauses or problems

How Smooth

smoothness

1 2.6

chunkiness

5.0

choppiness

1 6.0

fragmentation

5 6.3

Surface Forms

chunkiness singular

chunkinesses plural

Morphology

chunkiness = chunky (transparent) = chunk + y + ness

Derived via 'chunk' -> 'chunky' -> 'chunkiness'; the sense of unevenness or being composed of noticeable parts follows directly from 'chunk'.

Etymology

Chunkiness comes from chunk ('piece' or 'lump') and is used when something moves or sounds in sudden jumps instead of smoothly. So when a video or audio is 'chunky', it feels broken into parts and hard to follow.