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Largeness   /lˈɑrdʒnɪs/   Listen
Largeness

noun
1.
The capacity to understand a broad range of topics.  Synonyms: breadth, comprehensiveness.  "A man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views"
2.
Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness.  Synonym: extensiveness.  "The very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it"
3.
The property of having a relatively great size.  Synonym: bigness.
4.
The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth).  Synonyms: pretension, pretentiousness.






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"Largeness" Quotes from Famous Books



... might wish to get back into its comfortable grave? David Culross had not walked two blocks before he was seized with an almost uncontrollable desire to beg to be shielded once more in that safe and shameful retreat from which he had just been released. A horrible perception of the largeness of the world swept over him. Space and eternity could seem no larger to the usual man than earth—that snug and ...
— A Mountain Woman and Others • (AKA Elia Wilkinson) Elia W. Peattie

... and cook-shops there are not many, considering the largeness of the town, unless it be about the Inns of Court and Chancery, Smithfield, and the Royal Exchange, and some other places, to which the country-people and strangers resort when they come to town. Here is good butcher's meat of all kinds, and ...
— London in 1731 • Don Manoel Gonzales

... a country fellow brought her a little basket, which the guards intercepting and asking what it was, the fellow put the leaves which lay uppermost aside, and showed them it was full of figs; and on their admiring the largeness and beauty of the figs, he laughed, and invited them to take some, which they refused, and, suspecting nothing, bade him carry them in. After her repast, Cleopatra sent to Caesar a letter which she had written and sealed; and, putting everybody out of the monument but her two women, she shut ...
— Plutarch's Lives • A.H. Clough

... me some shoe-strings and a jar of cold cream (I sunburned all the skin off my nose before I got my new hat) and a blue Windsor tie and a bottle of blacking all for ten cents. That was an unusual bargain, owing to the largeness of my order. ...
— Daddy-Long-Legs • Jean Webster

... political and social movements. The dangers that menace our nation lie in the lack of intelligent Christian leadership. It is within the power of friends of the colleges to enroll among the college graduates a vast army of the youth of our land, whose largeness of manhood and womanhood and magnificence of character will commend themselves to the love and esteem of the lowly and suffering ...
— Colleges in America • John Marshall Barker


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