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English noun: largeness | |||
| 1. | largeness (cognition) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | ||
| Samples | A teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject. A man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views. | ||
| Synonyms | breadth, comprehensiveness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | intelligence | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | capaciousness, roominess | ||
| 2. | largeness (attribute) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | ||
| Samples | The might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness. The very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it. | ||
| Synonyms | extensiveness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | magnitude | ||
| 3. | largeness (attribute) the property of having a relatively great size | ||
| Synonyms | bigness | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | size | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ampleness, bulkiness, capaciousness, commodiousness, enormousness, fullness, giantism, gigantism, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, massiveness, roominess, sizeableness, spaciousness, vastness, voluminosity, voluminousness, wideness | ||
| Antonyms | littleness, smallness | ||
| 4. | largeness (attribute) 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 | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | unnaturalness | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | ostentation | ||
| Antonyms | unpretentiousness | ||
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