horizontality

American  

[hawr-i-zahn-tal-i-tee] / ˌhɔr ɪ zɑnˈtæl ɪ ti /

noun

1. the condition or fact of being horizontal.

2. Business. the defining feature of a corporate structure with minimal hierarchy, in which responsibility for planning and decision-making is spread across all areas or departments of the business.

3. Commerce. the fact of encompassing a wide range of industries or many aspects of an industry.

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horizontality

With its deeply overhanging roofs, its insistent horizontality, and ground-hugging form, it is an exemplar of the Prairie Style.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 27, 2026

The horizontality itself was a social statement: Without a second story, there was no upstairs/downstairs divide of servant and served.

From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2022

A local cliche might sum it up: The horizontality of the monument is like a film.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022

The field for the stars and stripes is rendered in short, firm strokes of rich color, painted marks whose definite horizontality plays against the upright verticality of the image.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 2, 2021

In approaching mountainous countries, this horizontality, generally speaking, ceases; finally, on the sides of mountains, some of these layers are very much inclined; they even sometimes attain a vertical direction.

From The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 by Walsh, Robert