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/ˈɫɑɹdʒnɪs/
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[ UK /lˈɑːdʒnəs/ ]
[ UK /lˈɑːdʒnəs/ ]
NOUN
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large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness
the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it
the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness - the property of having a relatively great size
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the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject
a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views - the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
How To Use largeness In A Sentence
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- I use the structure of the lyric to arrive to that last line that will, in my hopes, open to the widest aperture, to the most light, to capture in the smallest of instances, the largeness of life and its myriad of possibilities.
- Over and above this, however, seven was chosen, primarily, because it was a large number, and, secondly, because it was a sacred number, -- sacred in part because large, since 'largeness' and 'sacredness' are correlated ideas in the popular phases of early religious thought. The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria
- He also criticized the European Union for being a toy for political elites and civil servants, detested by the people for its largeness of scale, bureaucracy and megalomania.
- Italy; yet by their gray eyes and the largeness of their stature, they were conjectured to be some of the German races dwelling by the northern sea; besides that, the Germans call plunderers The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
- I can understand the suffering she's experienced in a discriminatory society, but I felt very sad that someone who had campaigned for so long on largeness decided to go on the most depriving food regime.
- Brendon's rope is just too huge for merely one "largeness" adjective; it must have three! Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 12: The Boobiac Strikes Back!
- The land seascape had an abandoned quality and a largeness that made the heart swell out to fill it.
- Then, remembering his dignity, he spoke with cutting sarcasm of the truly wonderful "largeness" seven brothers had shown in being able so well to take care of one younger sister. Ojio-San
- And there nyghe is the fosse of Mennon, that is alle round: and it is 100 cubytes of largenesse, and it is alle fulle of gravelle, schynynge brighte, of the whiche men maken fair verres56 and clere. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
