LENGTHINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does lengthiness mean? 

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

1. amount or degree or range to which something extends

2. the consequence of being lengthened in duration

  Familiarity information: LENGTHINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LENGTHINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Amount or degree or range to which something extends

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

extension; lengthiness; prolongation

Context example:

the wire has an extension of 50 feet

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

longness (the property of being of long spatial extent)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lengthiness"):

coextension (equality of extension or duration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The consequence of being lengthened in duration

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

continuation; lengthiness; prolongation; protraction

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

duration; length (continuance in time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lengthiness"):

fermata ((music) a prolongation of unspecified length on a note or chord or rest)

Derivation:

lengthy (relatively long in duration; tediously protracted)