Gradualness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being gradual. uncountable

    "As Sir Ronald Matthews said at the meeting of L.N.E.R. stockholders earlier this year, the public must realise "the inevitability of a certain amount of gradualness" in connection with the restoration of passenger train services and facilities."

  2. 2
    the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages wordnet
  3. 3
    the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual wordnet

Synonyms

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gradualitygentlenessgraduality

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"As Sir Ronald Matthews said at the meeting of L.N.E.R. stockholders earlier this year, the public must realise "the inevitability of a certain amount of gradualness" in connection with the restoration of passenger train services and facilities."

Etymology

From gradual + -ness.

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