[f. LEVEL a. + -NESS.] The quality or condition of being level.
1634. Peacham, Gentl. Exerc., II. ii. 109. So you must remember to draw them to expresse their levelness with the earth.
1787. Roy, in Phil. Trans., LXXVII. 190. Romney-Marsh, from its levelness … seeming … to afford the best base.
1824. Southey, Sir T. More (1831), II. 107. The very levelness of the political platform.
1891. J. Winsor, Columbus, 543. Levelness of head.
1897. Outing (U.S.), XXX. 126/1. Her rich black and tan markings are American, but her clean physical levelness comes from her English ancestry.
