BIGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bigness mean? 

• BIGNESS (noun)
  The noun BIGNESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of having a relatively great size

  Familiarity information: BIGNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BIGNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of having a relatively great size

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bigness; largeness

Hypernyms ("bigness" is a kind of...):

size (the physical magnitude of something (how big it is))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bigness"):

ampleness (the property of impressive largeness in size)

bulkiness; massiveness (an unwieldy largeness)

enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness (unusual largeness in size or extent or number)

capaciousness; commodiousness; roominess; spaciousness (spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building))

fullness; voluminosity; voluminousness (greatness of volume)

giantism; gigantism (excessive largeness of stature)

Antonym:

littleness (the property of having a relatively small size)

Derivation:

big (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

 Context examples 

One of them was covered, and seemed all of a piece: but at the upper end of the other there appeared a white round substance, about twice the bigness of our heads.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

He had felt the bigness and glow of life in what he had read, but his speech was inadequate.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

You see, it was much of the same bigness; and it had the same quick, light way with it; and then who else could have got in by the laboratory door?

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

I placed my palms against the main-mast, which was of a goodish bigness, and waited, every nerve upon the stretch.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The superfices was composed of several bits of wood, about the bigness of a die, but some larger than others.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I feel—oh, I can't describe it—I feel the bigness of it, but when I speak, I babble like a little child.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Nor was that all, for crawling together on flat tables of rock or letting themselves drop into the sea with loud reports I beheld huge slimy monsters—soft snails, as it were, of incredible bigness—two or three score of them together, making the rocks to echo with their barkings.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was dressed in clothes far too large for him, clothes of the doctor’s bigness; the cords of his face still moved with a semblance of life, but life was quite gone; and by the crushed phial in the hand and the strong smell of kernels that hung upon the air, Utterson knew that he was looking on the body of a self-destroyer.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He had a weekly allowance, from the society, of a vessel filled with human ordure, about the bigness of a Bristol barrel.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

I ate them by two or three at a mouthful, and took three loaves at a time, about the bigness of musket bullets.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)