linearity

[lin-ee-ar-i-tee] / ˌlɪn iˈær ɪ ti /

NOUN

length

Synonyms

STRONGEST

breadth diameter dimension duration height limit magnitude mileage period piece portion quantity radius range section segment space span stretch term width

STRONG

compass continuance elongation endlessness expanse expansion extensiveness interval lastingness lengthiness loftiness longitude longness measure orbit panorama purview reach realm remoteness season spaciousness stride tallness unit year

WEAK

protractedness ranginess

Antonyms

STRONGEST

extreme unimportance whole

Example Sentences

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Calibration curves for all eight PAHs showed exceptional linearity, with the R2 value surpassing 0.99.

From Science Daily ● Dec. 1, 2025

While “You Are the Detective” offers a semblance of linearity, another new gamebook—“Can You Solve the Murder?”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 14, 2025

For those with certain cognitive conditions who move between devices, the linearity of the accessibility features across platforms means a more comforting, consistent experience.

From The Verge ● Jul. 11, 2022

Kennedy reminds us that a play can also be a theatrical poem, that a drama can be divided into movements instead of acts and that circularity can do things linearity can’t even imagine.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 2, 2021

The plantings in the gardens still retained their linearity and rectitude of bloom; but a chicken-house was mere ash, and the windows of the mansion were broken.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

One of his gratuitous victims: famed Dutch Abstractionist Piet Mondrian, whose linoleum-like linearities have floored museum walls for two decades.

From Time Magazine Archive

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