Word Meanings - COMPACTNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPACTNESS)

• Consistency
• Consistence
• congruity
• composition
• substance
• material
• amalgamation
• compound
• mass
• density
• solidity
• closeness
• compactness
• coherence
• uniformity
• harmony
• analogy
• proportion

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of COMPACTNESS)

• Resolve
• analyze

Related words: (words related to COMPACTNESS)

• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• CONGRUITY
  Coincidence, as that of lines or figures laid over one another. (more info) 1. The state or quality of being congruous; the relation or agreement between things; fitness; harmony; correspondence; consistency. With what congruity doth the church
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• ANALYZER
  The part of a polariscope which receives the light after polarization, and exhibits its properties. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, analyzes.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• MATERIALNESS
  The state of being material.
• CONSISTENCE; CONSISTENCY
  1. The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity. Water, being divided, maketh many circles, till it restore itself to the natural consistence. Bacon. We
• ANALYZE
  To subject to analysis; to resolve into its elements; to separate into the constituent parts, for the purpose of an examination of each separately; to examine in such a manner as to ascertain the elements or nature of the thing examined; as, to
• PROPORTIONABLE
  Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
• RESOLVED
  Having a fixed purpose; determined; resolute; -- usually placed after its noun; as, a man resolved to be rich. That makes him a resolved enemy. Jer. Taylor. I am resolved she shall not settle here. Fielding.
• COHERENCE; COHERENCY
  1. A sticking or cleaving together; union of parts of the same body; cohesion. 2. Connection or dependence, proceeding from the subordination of the parts of a thing to one principle or purpose, as in the parts of a discourse, or of a system of
• MATERIALISTIC; MATERIALISTICAL
  Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.
• SUBSTANCE
  See 2 (more info) 1. That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in which properties inhere; that which is real,
• PROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.
• PROPORTIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.
• RESOLVE
  To solve, as a problem, by enumerating the several things to be done, in order to obtain what is required; to find the answer to, or the result of. Hutton. (more info) relax, enfeeble; pref. re- re- + solvere to loosen, dissolve: cf. F. résoudare
• COMPACTNESS
  The state or quality of being compact; close union of parts; density.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• IMMATERIALIST
  One who believes in or professes, immaterialism.
• INCOHERENCE; INCOHERENCY
  1. The quality or state of being incoherent; want of coherence; want of cohesion or adherence. Boyle. 2. Want of connection; incongruity; inconsistency; want of agreement or dependence of one part on another; as, the incoherence of arguments,
• DECOMPOSITION
  1. The act or process of resolving the constituent parts of a compound body or substance into its elementary parts; separation into constituent part; analysis; the decay or dissolution consequent on the removal or alteration of some of
• IMMATERIAL
  1. Not consisting of matter; incorporeal; spiritual; disembodied. Angels are spirits immaterial and intellectual. Hooker. 2. Of no substantial consequence; without weight or significance; unimportant; as, it is wholly immaterial whether he does
• SCHWANN'S WHITE SUBSTANCE
  The substance of the medullary sheath.
• INCONGRUITY
  1. The quality or state of being incongruous; want of congruity; unsuitableness; inconsistency; impropriety. The fathers make use of this acknowledgment of the incongruity of images to the Deity, from thence to prove the incongruity of the worship
• PRERESOLVE
  To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.