smoothness

Plural: smoothnesses

Noun

• a texture without roughness; smooth to the touch
  • "admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs"
  • "some artists prefer the smoothness of a board"
• powerful and effective language
  • "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police"
• the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner
• the quality of having a level and even surface
  • "the water was a glassy smoothness"
  • "the weather system of the Pacific is determined by the uninterrupted smoothness of the ocean"
• the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
  • "the five-speed manual gearbox is smoothness personified"
• The condition of being smooth; the degree or measure of said condition.
• The highest order of derivative (the differentiability class) over a given domain.
• The quantity measured by the modulus of smoothness.

Examples

• Smoothness can vary from 0 (for a nondifferentiable function) to infinity (for a smooth function).

Synonyms

blandness, eloquence, fluency, suaveness, suavity

Antonyms

roughness, jerkiness

Related Words

differentiability class, modulus of continuity, modulus of smoothness, uniform continuity