Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The condition or quality of being large.
- noun Comprehension: scope; extensiveness: as, largeness of intellect or of a view.
- noun Extension; amplitude; volume: as, the largeness of an offer.
- noun Freedom; breadth; latitude; unrestraint.
- noun Magnanimity.
- noun Liberality.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being large.
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- noun obsolete
Liberality ; generosity. - noun The property of being physically
large . - noun The quality of not being
limited orconstrained ; having great scope.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
- noun the property of having a relatively great size
- noun the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
- noun large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness
Etymologies
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Examples
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It focuses on a major drawback of largesse -- namely, largeness.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Huffington Post News Editors 2012
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It is called largeness of heart; for the heart is often put for the intellectual powers.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume II (Joshua to Esther) 1721
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Brendon's rope is just too huge for merely one "largeness" adjective; it must have three!
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back! 2010
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Brendon's rope is just too huge for merely one "largeness" adjective; it must have three!
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back! 2010
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The "largeness" of that number like the dot-coms referring to the largeness of the Internet does not a case make, as plenty of knowledge management vendors can attest.
What is informal learning, anyway? Clark Aldrich 2006
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The spiritual power and manifoldness and largeness which is the most informing quality of a really cultivated man comes from a certain refinement in him, a gift of knowing by tasting.
The Lost Art of Reading Gerald Stanley Lee 1903
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She, active and fresh-looking still, but settling into that fair largeness which is not unbecoming a lady of middle-age, he, inclined to a slight stoop, with the lines of his face more sharply defined, and the hair wearing away off his forehead up to the crown.
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Then, remembering his dignity, he spoke with cutting sarcasm of the truly wonderful "largeness" seven brothers had shown in being able so well to take care of one younger sister.
Ojio-San 1898
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Over and above this, however, seven was chosen, primarily, because it was a large number, and, secondly, because it was a sacred number, -- sacred in part because large, since 'largeness' and 'sacredness' are correlated ideas in the popular phases of early religious thought.
The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria Morris Jastrow 1891
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She, active and fresh-looking still, but settling into that fair largeness which is not unbecoming a lady of middle-age, he, inclined to a slight stoop, with the lines of his face more sharply defined, and the hair wearing away off his forehead up to the crown.
John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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