What is another word for symmetries?

Pronunciation: [sˈɪmətɹɪz] (IPA)

Symmetries refer to the evenness and uniformity of an object or pattern, and there are several synonyms that can be used to describe this quality. One of the most common synonyms for symmetries is balance, which implies an equal distribution of weight and visual elements. Another synonym is proportion, which suggests a harmonious relationship between the different elements of a design. Similar words to symmetries include harmony, coherence, and uniformity, all of which describe a sense of order and consistency. These synonyms can be used interchangeably with symmetries to describe the aesthetic qualities of art, architecture, and design.

What are the hypernyms for Symmetries?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Symmetries

What he does gives him confidence in his own mind, whose fanciful movement suggests other symmetries; for though fancy is a spontaneous play of the free will among impressions passively received, it is amenable to the laws whose exponents are presented to it by nature's works and human suggestion.
"Education in The Home, The Kindergarten, and The Primary School"
Elizabeth P. Peabody
The Lectures always fell more or less into the form of fragmentary answers to questions; and they are allowed to retain that form, as, on the whole, likely to be more interesting than the symmetries of a continuous treatise.
"The Ethics of the Dust"
John Ruskin
Its connections with the past, however, still hung thickly on; its majesties and symmetries, comparatively vague and general, were subject to the happy accident, the charming lapse and the odd extrusion, a bonhomie of chance composition and colour now quite purged away.
"A Small Boy and Others"
Henry James

Famous quotes with Symmetries

  • When one is involved in the discovery and discernment of the marvelous law and symmetries that shape the phenomenal world, one cannot but be struck by the silent and unfathomable intelligence that seems to pervade the Cosmos.
    Varadaraja V. Raman
  • But what, Phaedrus, is the contrary of a dream if not some other dream?… A dream of vigilance and tension dreamt by Reason herself!—And what would such a Reason dream?—If a Reason were to dream—a Reason hard, erect, eyes armed, mouth closed, as though mistress of her lips—would not the dream she dreamt be what we see now—this world of exact forces and studied illusions?—A dream, a dream, but a dream interpenetrated with symmetries, all order, acts and sequences!
    Paul Valéry

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