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ROOMINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does roominess mean? 

ROOMINESS (noun)
  The noun ROOMINESS has 2 senses:

1. intellectual breadthplay

2. spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)play

  Familiarity information: ROOMINESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ROOMINESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Intellectual breadth

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

capaciousness; roominess

Context example:

his unselfishness gave him great intellectual roominess

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

breadth; comprehensiveness; largeness (the capacity to understand a broad range of topics)


Sense 2

Meaning:

Spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

capaciousness; commodiousness; roominess; spaciousness

Context example:

his new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to

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

bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

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

airiness (the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air)

seating capacity (the number of people that can be seated in a vehicle or auditorium or stadium etc.)

Derivation:

roomy ((of buildings and rooms) having ample space)


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