Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The quality of being tall, in any sense; especially, height.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.

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  • noun The quality of characteristic of being tall.

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  • noun the property of being taller than average stature
  • noun the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top

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Examples

  • "We found that tallness is also probably linked to increased risk for ovarian, pancreatic and pre-menopausal cancer as well," said Willett.

    Diet, Growth Are Major Cancer Causes | Impact Lab 2007

  • They were about of a "tallness" -- why shouldn't it be

    Judith Lynn A Story of the Sea Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • As I’ve always said, tallness is next to godliness.

    MINI-ME CALLS OUT INDY 2008

  • But there would remain with him through the ages in that starry loneliness the idea of tallness; he would have in the awful spaces for companion and comfort the definite conception that he was growing taller and not (for instance) growing fatter.

    Heretics 1905

  • On the contrary, instead of identifying relations such as tallness or shortness with pairs of monadic properties taken jointly, reductive realists typically identify them with the individual members of such pairs.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • In our discussion to this point, we have been speaking as if reductive realists always intend to identify individual paradigmatic relations such as tallness or shortness with pairs of monadic properties taken jointly.

    Medieval Theories of Relations Brower, Jeffrey 2009

  • In the developing countries, especially where cattle are important, most traditional grain sorghum varieties have some forage type characteristics such as tallness and a high proportion of stalk to leaves.

    Chapter 7 1981

  • “I am not speaking of that kind of tallness, but another; you know what I mean, and there my friend is really monstrous.”

    The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt 1827

  • "I am not speaking of that kind of tallness, but another; you know what I mean, and there my friend is really monstrous."

    The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761

  • "I am not speaking of that kind of tallness, but another; you know what I mean, and there my friend is really monstrous."

    Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 11: Paris and Holland Giacomo Casanova 1761

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