CAPACIOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capaciousness mean? 

• CAPACIOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun CAPACIOUSNESS has 2 senses:

1. intellectual breadth

2. spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)

  Familiarity information: CAPACIOUSNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPACIOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Intellectual breadth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

capaciousness; roominess

Context example:

his unselfishness gave him great intellectual roominess

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

breadth; comprehensiveness; largeness (the capacity to understand a broad range of topics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

capaciousness; commodiousness; roominess; spaciousness

Context example:

his new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to

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

bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

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

airiness (the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air)

seating capacity (the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc.)

Derivation:

capacious (large in capacity)