EXTENSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does extensiveness mean? 

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

1. large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• EXTENSIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

extensiveness; largeness

Context example:

the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it

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

magnitude (relative importance)

Derivation:

extensive (broad in scope or content)

large (fairly large or important in effect; influential)