LOFTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loftiness mean? 

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

1. the quality of being high or lofty

2. impressiveness in scale or proportion

  Familiarity information: LOFTINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOFTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being high or lofty

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

highness; loftiness

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

height; tallness (the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top)

Derivation:

lofty (of imposing height; especially standing out above others)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Impressiveness in scale or proportion

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

loftiness; majesty; stateliness

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

grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)

Derivation:

lofty (of imposing height; especially standing out above others)

lofty (having or displaying great dignity or nobility)

 Context examples 

But there was no diminution in the loftiness of his feeling for her.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And he was ennobled, as well, by the loftiness of thought and beauty he found in the books.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)