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Expansiveness   Listen
noun
expansiveness  n.  
1.
A quality characterized by magnificence of scale; as, the expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon curtailed.
2.
A friendly open trait of a talkative person.
Synonyms: effusiveness.





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"Expansiveness" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wassiliefs. Every day new faces appeared of young people, men or women, with the cut of poor students; elated teachers, blond and rosy, with the self-willed forehead and the childlike ferocity of Sonia; outlawed exiles, some of them already condemned to death, which lessened in no way their youthful expansiveness. ...
— Tartarin On The Alps • Alphonse Daudet
... life no longer seemed reasonable, and the family became more self-centred and more enclosed. Beneath this, and more profoundly influential, there was a general softening in social respects, and a greater expansiveness of affectional relationships, in reality or in seeming, within the home, compensating, it may be, the more diffused social feeling within a group ...
— Little Essays of Love and Virtue • Havelock Ellis
... to be played very soft and subdued. This is what Gutmann said.] As to the one in D flat, nothing can equal the finish and delicacy of execution, the flow of gentle feeling, lightly rippled by melancholy, and spreading out here and there in smooth expansiveness. But all this sweetness enervates; there is poison in it. We should not drink in these thirds, sixths, &c., without taking an antidote of Bach or Beethoven. Both the nocturnes of Op. 32 are pretty specimens of Chopin's style of writing ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks
... forward. Mrs. Coombe seemed to have lost all her genial expansiveness. Miss Milligan's pins had overflowed from her pin-cushion into her mouth and Esther, who appeared tired, gazed steadily out of the window. Only the humming of the machines in the adjoining workroom ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... not been wanting in courage and frankness in that last interview with Jean? He neither could nor dared say anything; but she might have shown more tenderness, more expansiveness. Sad and suffering as he was, she should never have allowed him to go back on foot. She ought to have detained him at any price. Her imagination tormented and excited her; Jean must have carried away with him the ...
— L'Abbe Constantin, Complete • Ludovic Halevy


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