Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being spacious; largeness of extent; extensiveness; roominess.
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- noun The state or quality of being
spacious .
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- noun spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)
Etymologies
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Examples
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We should recognize more firmly its achievements and its relation to a certain spaciousness, especially that of a shrinking rural world.
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In other cities on this continent, the argument apparently is, "We have plenty of room, spaciousness is desirable on our own account, there is no earthly reason for our running up to heaven, therefore let us build sky scrapers."
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There’s a certain spaciousness, some peace of mind, and on a good day, pretty spectacular views.
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For Hartman, as objective space collapses, subjective "spaciousness" remains potent.
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The "spaciousness" of the interior has given room, if not for an impartial representation, at least for a reminder of all the styles of architecture to which the XVII century was heir.
Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose
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He didn't marry at once, as so many returning soldiers did; instead he was wedded to a vision of freedom, freedom of opinion, of spirit, worship -- any kind of spaciousness whatever.
Linda Condon Joseph Hergesheimer 1917
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It is perhaps partly also due to what one of the reviewers of my former volume well called the greater "spaciousness" of the English novel, that is to say, its inclusion of more diverse aims, and episodic subjects, and minor interests generally.
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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But, next to the lantern, the most striking thing in the interior of Coutances is certainly the sweep of the eastern aisles and chapels, where the interlacing aisles and pillars produce an effect of spaciousness which is not to be found in the main portions of the church.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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Another new and unique feature of WI-Verb DS is a "spaciousness" parameter, which delivers a surround-like experience at high settings and distinct stereo imaging at low ones.
Gearwire - 2008
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Another new and unique feature of WI-Verb DS is a "spaciousness" parameter, which delivers a surround-like experience at high settings and distinct stereo imaging at low ones.
Gearwire - 2008
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