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noun
Liberality; generosity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, obsolete, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The property of being physically large.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
The quality of not being limited or constrained; having great scope.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: pretentiousness, pretension
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: unnaturalness
Narrower terms: ostentation
noun
the property of having a relatively great size
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Synonyms: bigness
Antonyms: smallness
Broader terms: size
Narrower terms: ampleness, bulkiness, massiveness, enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness, capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness, commodiousness, fullness, voluminosity, voluminousness, gigantism, giantism
noun
large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: extensiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: magnitude
noun
the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: intelligence
Narrower terms: capaciousness, roominess
History
Etymology tree English large Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English largeness From large + -ness.
Across languages
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
