[syn: graduality, gradualness]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Gradualness \Grad"u*al*ness\, n.
The quality or state of being gradual; regular progression or
gradation; slowness.
[1913 Webster]
The gradualness of this movement. --M. Arnold.
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The gradualness of growth is a characteristic which
strikes the simplest observer. --H. Drummond.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
gradualness
n 1: the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual
[syn: gradualness, gentleness] [ant: abruptness,
precipitousness, steepness]
2: the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual
stages [syn: graduality, gradualness]