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expansiveness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun expansiveness has 2 senses
- expansiveness(n = noun.attribute) expansivity - a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed" is a kind of grandness, impressiveness, magnificence, richness
- expansiveness(n = noun.attribute) effusiveness, expansivity - a friendly open trait of a talkative person; Array is a kind of communicativeness
Derived forms adjective expansive1, adjective expansive2
Derived form adjective expansive4
CIDE DICTIONARY
expansiveness, n.
- a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; as, the expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon curtailed. [WordNet 1.5]
- a friendly open trait of a talkative person. [WordNet 1.5]
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