Associations to the word «Proportionality»

Wiktionary

PROPORTIONALITY, noun. (uncountable) the property of being proportional
PROPORTIONALITY, noun. (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)
PROPORTIONALITY, noun. (countable) the degree to which something is in proportion

Dictionary definition

PROPORTIONALITY, noun. A ratio of two quantities that is constant.
PROPORTIONALITY, noun. Harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin