"backness" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /bæk.nɪs/
Etymology: back + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|back|ness}} back + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} backness (uncountable)
  1. (phonetics) Quality of being a back vowel. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Phonetics
    Sense id: en-backness-en-noun-eLH8tyLH Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 39 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ness: 63 37 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
  2. (phonetics) A quality of vowels, indicating the horizontal position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth (front, near-front, central, near-back, or back). Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Phonetics Synonyms: frontness
    Sense id: en-backness-en-noun-HYAod2PJ Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, phonetics, phonology, sciences
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Translations (a quality of vowels: the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth): posterioritat [feminine] (Catalan), elölség (Hungarian), elölképzettség (Hungarian)
Disambiguation of 'a quality of vowels: the position of the tongue relative to the back of the mouth': 46 54

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