flatness
/ˈflatnəs
/noun [mass noun]
1The quality of having a level surface without raised areas or indentations: the flatness of the external surface I am transfixed by the flatness of her stomach...
- Although his compositions retain the flatness of the computer screen, they are transformed into dynamic explorations of color and perception.
- The aluminum bands and rivets that comprise the work can only speak of the brushed surface or the inexorable flatness of the metal.
- And yet these tiles merely emphasize the flatness of the fronts, and their colors are rarely exploited.
1.1Lack of hills in a landscape: the flatness of the desert stretched out uninterrupted for miles extensive areas of relative flatness...
- Long earth berms conceal cars and animate the pancake flatness of the suburban topography.
- The flatness is what people refer to about the Midwest when they drive through from the mountain ranges, or the towering forests, or the canyons or the cliffs, or the lolling bluegrass hills.
- It isn't named after the flatness of the land, but instead, was where the land was first cleared for development - meratakan, or rata, tanah - and was later called Tanah Rata by the constructors.
2Lack of emotion or enthusiasm; dullness: neither the editing nor the score do much to help the film’s emotional flatness there’s no escaping the flatness of the characters...
- A quick frisson marks the transition from the warm, languid flatness of late summer to the sharp chill of autumn.
- My favorite scenes come when the film's comic energy is allowed to outrun its carefully maintained arty flatness.
- His performance speaks to both the honesty of the episode discussions and the flatness of this episode.
2.1Lack of activity of trade, prices, etc.; sluggishness: investors seem content with progress, despite the flatness of revenue and profits...
- He says the flatness of sour cream sales in recent years is a direct result of consumers cooking less at home.
- Furthermore, he bemoaned the fact that the stale economy has caused "a kind of flatness in the business."
- With the farm economy in a sustained state of flatness, we explained how each piece of equipment could be analyzed for cost effectiveness.
3Loss of effervescence in a sparkling drink.How do you determine the flatness of a carbonated drink?...
- It's a 32-ounce insulated bottle designed to rid a beverage of heat and flatness.
- The head would make it seem that the beer is over-carbonated, but the flatness of the beer makes it seem like it's under-carbonated.
3.1Loss of air in something inflated, such as a tyre.And then I say to father, "How fortunate for us the flatness of the tires?"...
- The mechanism that inflation provides that drives the universe towards flatness will in almost all cases overshoot.
- We can describe the earth's transition from flatness to roundness and allow that it may change again.
3.2British The condition of a battery having exhausted its charge.
4The quality of a musical sound being below normal pitch: the flatness of the vocals...
- She mostly excelled with Olympia's aria, but her high notes occasionally soured toward flatness.
- All evening long, however, something about her vocal production colored her pitch toward flatness.
- He gives Erik a rather heroic sound, with occasionally covered tone leading to some flatness.