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The property of being massive.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- 1914, H. G. Wells, “The Common Sense of Warfare” in An Englishman Looks at the World (U.S. title: Social Forces in England and America), New York: Harper & Brothers, § 2, pp. 163-164, The progress of invention makes both the big ship and the army crowd more and more vulnerable and less effective. A new phase of warfare opens beyond the vista of our current programmes. Smaller, more numerous and various and mobile weapons and craft and contrivances, manned by daring and highly skilled men, must ultimately take the place of those massivenesses.
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the property of being large in mass
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: heft, heftiness, ponderousness, ponderosity
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: heaviness, weightiness
an unwieldy largeness
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: bulkiness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: largeness, bigness
Etymology tree English massive 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 massiveness From massive + -ness.
