Lexic.us

Definition of Roominess

1. Noun. Intellectual breadth. "His unselfishness gave him great intellectual roominess"

2. Noun. Spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building). "His new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to"

Definition of Roominess

1. n. The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.

Definition of Roominess

1. Noun. The quality of being roomy ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Roominess

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roominess

roomate roome roomed roomers roomes roomette roomettes roomful roomfuls roomie

roomier roomies roomiest roomily roominess roominesses rooming rooming-in care rooming house rooming houses

roomless roomlike roommate roommatehood roommates roommateship rooms roomsful roomsome

Literary usage of Roominess

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The United States: A History of Three Centuries, 1607-1904; Population by William Estabrook Chancellor, Fletcher Willis Hewes (1905)
"To judge by the facts, a surprisingly large proportion of the colonials had spacious and comfortable homes, as roominess and comfort were understood in ..."

2. Wanderings and Musings in the Valleys of the Waldenses by James Aitken Wylie (1858)
"... Martyr eternal — The Pra del Tor — Its Roominess — Its Isolation — Its Desolation — Retreat of Christianity in the Dark Ages — The Barbes— Their College ..."

3. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1858)
"The dorsal vertebra? being intermediate in position, are abo intermediate in bulk and roominess, being more roomy than solid in the upper, and more bulky ..."

4. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"The dorsal vertebra being intermediate in position, ore also intermediate in bulk and roominess, being more roomy than solid in the upper, and more bulky ..."

5. The Diseases of the Nose and Its Accessory Sinuses by Harry Lambert Lack (1906)
"Congenital excessive roominess of the nasal fossae. This acts by diminishing the force of the expiratory blast of air, and thus rendering it difficult to ..."

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