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three-dimensionality

three-dimensionality

1 7.3
Having height, width, and depth
  • noun
  • /θriː dɪˌmɛnʃəˈnælɪti/
translation icon : tridimensionalidad
  • To create a lifelike image, artists must focus on light and shadow to enhance the three-dimensionality of their work.
  • illusion of three-dimensionality
  • create three-dimensionality

Or do you think that movement practice is just best explored through three dimensionality, gravity and maybe a stick or a ball?

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Examples

  • While it now also incorporates all kinds of digital transformations and layers, it is still defined by three-dimensionality, perspective, and the movement of objects.

    Blog text (7)

  • Primitive Negro Sculpture maintains that African art most significantly differs from other forms of artistic expression in its sculptural qualities or "three-dimensionality," as Fry noted earlier.

    Academic text (2003)

  • Or do you think that movement practice is just best explored through three dimensionality, gravity and maybe a stick or a ball?

    Andrew Huberman

  • The three-dimensionality of the medium limits the scope in certain respects.

    Academic text (1999)

  • Viewed with the glasses, the artwork produced an illusion of depth and three-dimensionality.

    Blog text (29)

  • Unlike Fry, Bell does not highlight specific formal characteristics of African sculpture, such as three-dimensionality.

    Academic text (2003)

  • HOLOPHONICS advertises a technology with complete three-dimensionality in sound: a 360-degree aural sphere around the listener.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Ethiopian painters adopted Byzantine models (see Fig. 6) but eliminated any suggestion of three-dimensionality, focusing on pattern and line.

    Academic text (1998)

  • Inspired by Hollywood portraitists and photographers who depicted Precolumbian objects with drama, Kerr brought out the objects' three-dimensionality, their beauty, sobriety, menace, or wit.

    Academic text (2003)

  • The dominating coil shapes mingling with the vertical lines of the reed and the spears provide some illusion of three-dimensionality in certain areas, only to reaffirm the two-dimensional character of the picture surface in others.

    Academic text (2004)

Synonyms

third-dimensionality
vsthree-dimensionality
8.1

The quality of having three dimensions like length, width, and depth

is the same meaning but uses a cardinal number form not an ordinal form

Antonyms

two-dimensionality
  • Specialized
7.7

Something flat like a picture that has length and width but no depth

How Deep

depth
318 1.0
three-dimensionality
1 7.3
shallowness
1 4.6
flatness
3 2.9

Surface Forms

three-dimensionality singular
three-dimensionalities plural

Morphology

three-dimensionality = three + dimensional (transparent) = three + dimension + al + ity

A straightforward compound of the numeral 'three' and the adjective 'dimensional' whose meaning directly indicates having three dimensions.

Etymology

Three-dimensionality comes from three and dimension, where dimension means 'measure', so it describes having three measures, height, width and depth, like a cube or a real object that looks solid.