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EXPANSIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does expansiveness mean? 

EXPANSIVENESS (noun)
  The noun EXPANSIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expandplay

2. a friendly open trait of a talkative personplay

  Familiarity information: EXPANSIVENESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EXPANSIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

expansiveness; expansivity

Context example:

the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed

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

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

Derivation:

expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)

expansive (of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A friendly open trait of a talkative person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

effusiveness; expansiveness; expansivity

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

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

Derivation:

expansive (friendly and open and willing to talk)


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