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bigness

[ US /ˈbɪɡnəs/ ]
[ UK /bˈɪɡnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the property of having a relatively great size

How To Use bigness In A Sentence

  • In the midst of the church stood 12. waxe tapers of two yards long, and a fathom about in bignesse, and there stands a kettle full of waxe with about 100. weight, wherein there is alwayes the wicke of a candle burning, as it were a lampe which goeth not out day nor night. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 03
  • Infinity is just so big that by comparison, bigness itself looks really titchy.
  • Like so many ills of today's society, the cult of bigness has American origin.
  • The leaves are brond and thort, of the bigness of one's thunib-tiail, and of The Family Herbal,: And of the Drugs which are Produced by Vegetables of Other Countries : with ...
  • Suppose a Man born blind, and now adult, and taught by his touch to distinguish between a Cube, and a Sphere of the same metal, and nighly of the same bigness, so as to tell, when he felt one and t'other; which is the Cube, which the Sphere. Molyneux's Problem
  • This bigness of heart, this largesse of the soul, is a characteristic of hers that has been remarked on frequently, though in all honesty I must say I have never experienced it firsthand.
  • It's the nature of bigness and corporateness to do that. Ranchero.com
  • I find that statement particularly significant in that it has a pejorative connotation: bigness is apparently assumed to require restraint. The New Society: New Title, Same Old Debate
  • While mere bigness is not the criteria, the optimum sized industry really is the criteria of contribution to productivity. The Resultant of Forces
  • Second, that enforcement of those norms and customs could have been essential for group cohesion and harmony, especially as groups got bigger (bigness is important in battles against other groups). The Selfless Gene
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