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Unevenness vs Montuosity - What's the difference?

unevenness | montuosity |

As nouns the difference between unevenness and montuosity

is that unevenness is (uncountable) the quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity while montuosity is the property of being montuous or having mountains.

unevenness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality or characteristic of being uneven; irregularity; inconsistency; the lack of smoothness or continuity.
  • :The unevenness of his voice betrayed his nervousness.
  • (countable) The result or product of being uneven.
  • A rough or uneven thing.
  • *1633 , John Donne, "Sapho to Philænis":
  • *:His chinne, a thorny hairy unevennesse , / Doth threaten, and some daily change possesse.

    • montuosity

    English

    Noun

    (montuosities)
  • The property of being montuous or having mountains.
    • Various appearances from which the Moon's montuosity is argued.
  • A mountain or mountainlike unevenness on a surface; a mountain peak.
    • But had these mountains been diaphanous, we could never have seen those luminous montuosities .

    References

    * Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (1661), translating the Italian and (in the plural) cuspidi.