largeness
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈlɑrdʒnəs/
:
grandeza
- Everyone was amazed at the largeness of the festival, which included numerous stalls and attractions.
It does, especially if you talk about largeness or tallness.
- It does, especially if you talk about largeness or tallness.
- So I I am, I'm overwhelmed at its largeness.
Examples
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The largeness of the room allowed for plenty of furniture without feeling cramped.
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There was a largeness to it, an emptiness, the way it gets sometimes when a connection is suddenly broken.
Fiction book (1990) -
My purpose was to show the connection between character and art, to prove the point that without largeness of character, there could be no authenticity of art.
Fiction book (1990) -
But its physical dimensions are surpassed by its scale, its monumentality, or largeness of effect.
Academic text (1990) -
She has gotten used to the largeness of the bed, the quiet ticking of the clock which his snores and breathing had always hidden.
Fiction book (1991) -
The largeness of everything, the plane and the planet Earth and the transparent miles between them, struck her much as when the bandages on her eyes had been removed, giving her back the world in its shocking, unsoftened colors.
Fiction book (2002) -
The largeness of the world, which accentuated her own tininess, her very insignificant insignificance, hovered above with its misshapen clouds.
Fiction book (2000) -
On Art for Your Sake, Myers had announced that, with works like Lassoing Horses, Benton's art constituted "one of the first attempts in our own generation to sing a song of America, of its largeness, strength, crudeness, and power."
Academic text (2008) -
The largeness of the elephant in the zoo drew a crowd of fascinated visitors.
Synonyms
661
2.6
The size or level of something compared with others
137
4.7
The size or importance of something compared to others
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3.8
Great size or amount that feels almost endless
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8.1
A very large size or amount
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6.8
A very large size or amount
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2.8
The size or importance of something
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1.9
A very large size that is much bigger than normal
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3.7
A very large size or amount, like a mountain
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8.2
A large amount of something that is hard to deal with
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2.5
Great width of a place like a road or river
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5.4
A great size or weight that makes something heavy
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7.0
A large, wide area or an idea that seems impressive
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2.2
A large distance or range across something
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7.5
Large size or range that includes many parts
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7.7
A quality that makes something seem large and important for a long time
A great physical size or a large amount
A very large size or amount that feels endless
Very large size or amount
Being extremely large, powerful, or important and making people feel amazed
A large amount of space that something takes
Antonyms
How Big
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Largeness comes from the Latin root largus, meaning 'abundant', and from Old French large, meaning 'wide' or 'spacious'. So largeness is about being 'very big' or 'wide' in size or space.