taperness

English

Etymology

taper +‎ -ness

Noun

taperness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being tapered; tapering form.
   • written a. 1763, William Shenstone, "On Taste", collected in Essays on Men and Manners

     A Corinthian pillar has some beauty dependent on its variety and smoothness; which I would call absolute; it has also a relative beauty, dependent on its taperness and foliage

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “taperness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• apertness, præsents