expansiveness

  • 101expansive — 1650s, tending to expand, from L. expans (see EXPANSE (Cf. expanse)) + IVE (Cf. ive). Related: Expansively; expansiveness …

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  • 102expansivities — n. expansiveness, tendency to expand …

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  • 103expansivity — n. expansiveness, tendency to expand …

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  • 104expansive — adjective 1》 covering a wide area; extensive. 2》 relaxed, genial, and communicative. 3》 tending towards economic or political expansion. Derivatives expansively adverb expansiveness noun …

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  • 105capaciousness — n. Spaciousness, amplitude, largeness, roominess, vastness, openness, freedom, breadth, extent, extensiveness, expansiveness, comprehensiveness …

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  • 106expansive — adjective 1 very friendly and willing to talk a lot: After a couple of drinks she suddenly became more expansive. 2 very large and wide in area: a broad expansive valley 3 expansive behaviour or ideas are confident but not always practical: He… …

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  • 107lightness — lightness, light mindedness, levity, frivolity, flippancy, volatility, flightiness are comparable when denoting the quality, manner, or attitude of one who is irresponsibly gay or indifferent especially when seriousness is expected. Lightness… …

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  • 108verbiage — verbiage, redundancy, tautology, pleonasm, circumlocution, periphrasis are comparable when they denote a fault of style or a form or mode of expression involving the use of too many words. Verbiage may imply delight in words for their own sake… …

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  • 109largeness — n 1. bigness, greatness, enormity, enor mousness, hugeness, grandiosity, grandness, grandeur; magnitude, size, dimension, measure, muchness; mass, bulk, proportion, caliber; sizableness, substantiality, largishness, biggishness, considerableness; …

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  • 110expansive — UK [ɪkˈspænsɪv] / US adjective 1) formal friendly, generous, or willing to talk an expansive mood/wave/gesture/smile 2) including many things or a large area At 35, she has already created an expansive business empire. an expansive view across… …

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