[f. as prec. + -NESS. The stress varies.] Convex quality, convexity.

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1738.  Med. Ess. & Observ. (ed. 2), IV. 134. Were not the Cornea of a Convexness answerable to the Flatness of their Eyes.

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1815.  J. Gilchrist, Labyrinth Demol., 44. Convexness and concaveness usually meet in the same object.

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