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UK
/ɛkspˈænsɪvnəs/
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NOUN
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a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed - a friendly open trait of a talkative person
How To Use expansiveness In A Sentence
- Breathing in and out for an equal length of time is another way to experience expansiveness and balance.
- No sooner had a bowl of steaming spaghetti vongole been placed in front of me than Matt, in a moment of open-armed expansiveness while trying to press home a point, had knocked the entire thing into my lap.
- This shadow transmutes into wisdom by letting go of your self-importance and experiencing the enriching depth, expansiveness, and abundance of all life with equanimity. C. Clinton Sidle: The Five Wisdoms Of The Mandala
- Sensitive to atmosphere, Jolyon soon felt the latent antagonism between the boys, and was puzzled by Holly; so he became unconsciously ironical, which is fatal to the expansiveness of youth. In Chancery
- Gibbons draws a viable enough distinction between the intricate formalism of Perec's fiction and the "expansiveness" of Pynchon, Wallace, and Vollmann (whose work might be more accurately characterized by what Tom LeClair has called the "art of excess"), but I wonder about the utility of of attributing these differences to national or geographical qualities -- "commensurate with the open spaces and endless distances of our continent. Art and Culture
- When we entered the cemetery, I was immediately struck by the sense of peace and expansiveness that pervaded the place.
- The Guggenheim, which more than any other art museum epitomized the heady expansiveness of the 1990s economy, has suffered more than most.
- At the same time, I looked around to find who is rested most deeply and stably and relaxedly in expansiveness. Arjuna Ardagh: Healing the Spirit/Matter Split
- American expansiveness now looks bloated and fatigued to anyone not planning a fly-drive holiday to Florida.
- We know also that this last state is characterized by a high degree of expansiveness, which is also the outstanding property of heat. Man or Matter