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Definition of Largeness
1. Noun. The capacity to understand a broad range of topics. "A man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views"
Generic synonyms: Intelligence
Specialized synonyms: Capaciousness, Roominess
Derivative terms: Comprehensive, Comprehensive
2. Noun. Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness. "The very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it"
3. Noun. The property of having a relatively great size.
Generic synonyms: Size
Specialized synonyms: Ampleness, Bulkiness, Massiveness, Enormousness, Grandness, Greatness, Immenseness, Immensity, Sizeableness, Vastness, Wideness, Capaciousness, Commodiousness, Roominess, Spaciousness, Fullness, Voluminosity, Voluminousness, Giantism, Gigantism
Derivative terms: Big, Large, Large
Antonyms: Littleness, Smallness
4. Noun. The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).
Generic synonyms: Unnaturalness
Specialized synonyms: Ostentation
Derivative terms: Large, Pretentious
Antonyms: Unpretentiousness
Definition of Largeness
1. n. The quality or state of being large.
Definition of Largeness
1. Noun. (obsolete) Liberality; generosity. ¹
2. Noun. The property of being physically large. ¹
3. Noun. The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Largeness
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Largeness
Literary usage of Largeness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1904)
"This largeness of his nature, coupled with its quickness, its mobility, makes
his serious moods seem an affectation or assumption to narrow, ..."
2. Collections by Massachusetts Historical Society (1878)
"[Bound up with the Almanack for 1689, in which the foregoing Journal is contained,
there is a handbill advertisement of a dwarf, "for largeness and ..."
3. The Works of George Fox by George Fox (1831)
"Soon after this the Yearly Meeting began at York, which, because of the largeness
of that county, ..."
4. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1876)
"Large- with the ordinary practical educator, is largeness of view. In the discourse
Against the Sophists he remarks that the vision of these teachers is ..."
5. Report of the Proceedings by Church congress (1880)
"And I am sure it is in the breadth, largeness, and frankness of our mutual
concessions, as soon as concessions become necessary, that the world will be ..."
6. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"... is largeness of 1. Large-y*X view. In the discourse Ayn/nxt tin' Sophists he
re- view, r marks that the vision o[' these teachers is generally limited ..."
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