Largeness
['la:dʒnis]
Definition
(noun.) the property of having a relatively great size.
(noun.) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness; 'the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness'; 'the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it'.
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being large.
Checker: Patty
Examples
- She had been surprised at the largeness of the amount; but as no sum had ever been mentioned she set that down to her late uncle's generosity. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The largeness of its features made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- Far off in the bending sky was the pearly light; and she felt the largeness of the world and the manifold wakings of men to labor and endurance. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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