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US
/ˈfɫætnəs/
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[ UK /flˈætnəs/ ]
[ UK /flˈætnəs/ ]
NOUN
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a want of animation or brilliance
the almost self-conscious flatness of Hemingway's style - the property of having little or no contrast; lacking highlights or gloss
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inactivity; showing an unusual lack of energy
the general appearance of sluggishness alarmed his friends - the property of having two dimensions
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a deficiency in flavor
it needed lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried lentils
How To Use flatness In A Sentence
- It's a flat place, not the mind-numbing flatness of western Kansas, there is some roll, some hilliness as the land rises toward the Ozark mountains of Missouri and Arkansas, but still smooth with a horizon that stretches forever. Archive 2010-04-01
- Babylonia, a part of Lower Mesopotamia, 7; excessive flatness of, 9; later name for "Shumir and Accad" and for "Chaldea," 237. Chaldea From the Earliest Times to the Rise of Assyria
- Such bottom-land as borders the Pamunkey river, for example, might be called undulating, compared to the general greater flatness of the whole great region under consideration. Agricultural, Geological, and Descriptive Sketches of Lower North Carolina, and the Similar Adjacent Lands
- The sinking of bodies in water has likewise the same effect, as I remember to have heard of bottles of wine being let down into a deep well to cool, but through accident or neglect being left there for many years, and then taken out; and that the wine not only was free from sourness or flatness, but tasted much finer, owing, it would seem, to a more exquisite commixture of its parts. The New Organon
- Thickness is not an entirely free parameter, though; overly thin components suffer from poor flatness or transmitted wavefront distortion.
- Nor have they the fine American hand for devising new verbs; to maffick, to limehouse, to strafe and to wangle are their best specimens in twenty years, and all have an almost pathetic flatness. Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation
- Only the concrete dividers separating the opposing lanes of traffic broke the utter flatness.
- Even at this distance the flopping flatness of his cap, the bright brown leather at the top of his calves, and the chequering of his stockings were perceptible. The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll
- It is misleading to call the counterexample the "flatness problem," and then pretend it has a solution. Conservapedia - Recent changes [en]
- The aluminum bands and rivets that comprise the work can only speak of the brushed surface or the inexorable flatness of the metal.
