rectangularity
- noun
- /rɛkˈtæŋɡjʊˌlærɪti/
:
rectangularidad
- Artists often strive for rectangularity in their canvases to create a sense of balance and proportion.
Examples
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The architectural design showcased a perfect rectangularity that enhanced the building's modern appearance.
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Its inscrutable rectangularity perplexed him.
Blog text (22) -
At twenty-three, she had her teeth capped for no good reason except added whiteness and rectangularity.
Fiction book (1990) -
Then there are beginnings scattered all over, and at various angles that ignore the rectangularity of the paper, as if by not starting at the top or not following the shape of the page he could fool himself that it is not a beginning (135).
Academic text (2008) -
The room's rectangularity made it an ideal space for arranging furniture in a functional layout.
How Elongated
Surface Forms
Morphology
rectangularity = rectangular (transparent) = rectangle + ar + ity
Formed by a standard nominalization of the adjective 'rectangular' with '-ity', so the meaning (the quality of being rectangular) is directly derivable.
Etymology
The word rectangularity comes from rectangle, where rect- means 'straight' or 'right' and angle means 'corner', so rectangularity is the quality of having straight sides and right corners.