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proportionality

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proportionality

  • /pɹəpɔɹʃəˈnæləti/
  • /pɹəpɔɹʃɪnˈælɪti/

Rhymes with -æləti, -ælɪti

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From proportional + -ity, from Latin proportionalitas.

noun proportionalities

  1. uncountable the property of being proportional
  2. uncountable the principle that government action ought to be proportional to the ends achieved (e.g. the military should not be deployed to stop petty vandalism)
  3. countable the degree to which something is in proportion

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noun the property of being proportional

Españolproporcionalidad
Portuguêsproporcionalidade
Françaisproportionnalité
DeutschProportionalität
Italianoproporzionalità
Ελληνικάαναλογικότητα analogikótita
Русскийпропорциона́льность proporcionálʹnostʹ

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@misc{proportionality_2026,
  title = {proportionality},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/proportionality},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}