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GRANDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does grandness mean?
• GRANDNESS (noun)
The noun GRANDNESS has 4 senses:
2. unusual largeness in size or extent or number
3. the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
4. splendid or imposing in size or appearance
Familiarity information: GRANDNESS used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A prominent status
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
grandness; importance
Context example:
a person of importance
Hypernyms ("grandness" is a kind of...):
standing (social or financial or professional status or reputation)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandness"):
accent; emphasis (special importance or significance)
primacy (the state of being first in importance)
Derivation:
important (having authority or ascendancy or influence)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness
Hypernyms ("grandness" is a kind of...):
bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandness"):
enormity (vastness of size or extent)
Derivation:
grand (of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope)
grand (large and impressive in physical size or extent)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
brilliance; grandeur; grandness; magnificence; splendor; splendour
Context example:
advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products
Hypernyms ("grandness" is a kind of...):
elegance (a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandness"):
eclat (brilliant or conspicuous success or effect)
Derivation:
grand (used of a person's appearance or behavior; befitting an eminent person)
grand (of high moral or intellectual value; elevated in nature or style)
grand (extraordinarily good or great; used especially as intensifiers)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Splendid or imposing in size or appearance
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness
Context example:
impressed by the richness of the flora
Hypernyms ("grandness" is a kind of...):
excellence (the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "grandness"):
expansiveness; expansivity (a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand)
loftiness; majesty; stateliness (impressiveness in scale or proportion)
Derivation:
grand (the most important and magnificent in adornment)
grand (large and impressive in physical size or extent)
grand (ostentatiously rich and superior in quality)
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