proportionality

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun a ratio of two quantities that is constant
noun harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); - John Ruskin

From proportional + -ity, from Latin proportionalitas.

This concern about proportionality, which is merely another word for justice, was quite foreign to their thoughts. — A history of economic doctrines : $b from the time of the physiocrats to the present day, Charles Gide
It is Eternity revealing itself in the phaenomena of Time: and the perception and acknowledgment of the proportionality and appropriateness of the Present to the Past, prove to the afflicted Soul, that it has not yet been deprived of the sight of God, that it can still recognise the effective presence of a Father, though through a darkened glass and a turbid atmosphere, though of a Father that is chastising it. — Biographia Literaria, Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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