evenness

Evenness is the characteristic of being regular, smooth, or homogeneous. Part of what's beautiful about snow when it first falls is its undisturbed evenness.

When you're sanding the top of a table or spreading asphalt on a driveway, evenness is what you're aiming for. Another kind of evenness is a balance or equity between things: "The evenness of their salaries seemed fair to the restaurant's employees." Yet another way to have evenness is to be an even number, divisible by two — consider, for example, the evenness of the number 14 as opposed to the number 17.

Definitions of evenness

1. noun

   a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
   synonyms: invariability

   antonyms:

   unevenness

   the quality of being uneven and lacking uniformity

   types:

   smoothness

   the quality of having a level and even surface

   type of:

   regularity

   the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate
2. noun

   the quality of being balanced
   antonyms:

   unevenness

   the quality of being unbalanced

   type of:

   equality

   the quality of being the same in quantity or measure or value or status
3. noun

   the parity of even numbers (divisible by two)
   type of:

   parity

   (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity