Denseness

dense  (dns)

adj. dens·er, dens·est

1.

a. Having relatively high density.

b. Crowded closely together; compact: a dense population.

2. Hard to penetrate; thick: a dense jungle.

3.

a. Permitting little light to pass through, because of compactness of matter: dense glass; a dense fog.

b. Opaque, with good contrast between light and dark areas. Used of a photographic negative.

4. Difficult to understand because of complexity or obscurity: a dense novel.

5. Slow to apprehend; thickheaded.

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[Middle English, from Latin dnsus.]

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densely adv.

denseness n.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	denseness - the quality of being mentally slow and limited dumbness, slow-wittedness stupidity - a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience
	2.	denseness - the spatial property of being crowded together compactness, concentration, density, tightness spatial arrangement, spacing - the property possessed by an array of things that have space between them
	3.	denseness - the amount per unit size density compactness - the consistency of a compact solid bits per inch, bpi - a measure of how densely information is packed on a storage medium flux density, flux - (physics) the number of changes in energy flow across a given surface per unit area absorbance, optical density, photographic density, transmission density - (physics) a measure of the extent to which a substance transmits light or other electromagnetic radiation low density, rarity, tenuity - a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" relative density - the ratio of the density of something to the density of a standard