LARGENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does largeness mean? 

• LARGENESS (noun)
  The noun LARGENESS has 4 senses:

1. the capacity to understand a broad range of topics

2. large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness

3. the property of having a relatively great size

4. the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

  Familiarity information: LARGENESS used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LARGENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The capacity to understand a broad range of topics

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

breadth; comprehensiveness; largeness

Context example:

a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views

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

intelligence (the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience)

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

capaciousness; roominess (intellectual breadth)

Derivation:

comprehensive (broad in scope)

Sense 2

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 ("largeness" is a kind of...):

magnitude (relative importance)

Derivation:

large (fairly large or important in effect; influential)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The property of having a relatively great size

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

bigness; largeness

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

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

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

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:

smallness (the property of having a relatively small size)

Derivation:

large (in an advanced stage of pregnancy)

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

Sense 4

Meaning:

The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

largeness; pretension; pretentiousness

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

unnaturalness (the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles)

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

ostentation (pretentious or showy or vulgar display)

Derivation:

large (ostentatiously lofty in style)

 Context examples 

Not a man, not a sail, upon the sea; the very largeness of the view increased the sense of solitude.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

She lacked the easy largeness of Martin and could not rise superior to her environment.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The largeness of its features made it appear the most deformed animal that can be conceived.

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

They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

And while the whole face was the incarnation of fierceness and strength, the primal melancholy from which he suffered seemed to greaten the lines of mouth and eye and brow, seemed to give a largeness and completeness which otherwise the face would have lacked.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The weather being very warm, the closet-window was left open, as well as the windows and the door of my bigger box, in which I usually lived, because of its largeness and conveniency.

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

Whereupon seven monsters, like himself, came towards him with reaping-hooks in their hands, each hook about the largeness of six scythes.

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