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expansivity

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

expansiveness

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The formal notion of points moving away from one another under the action of an iterated function.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable, usually

Topics: mathematics, sciences

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3

noun

Meaning 3

a friendly open trait of a talkative person

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: effusiveness, expansiveness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: communicativeness

4

noun

Meaning 4

a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: expansiveness

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness

5

noun

Meaning 5

the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: coefficient of expansion

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: coefficient

History

Etymology

From expansive + -ity.