WIDENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does wideness mean? 

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

1. the property of being wide; having great width

2. unusual largeness in size or extent or number

  Familiarity information: WIDENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WIDENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of being wide; having great width

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

broadness; wideness

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

breadth; width (the extent of something from side to side)

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

heaviness; thickness (used of a line or mark)

Antonym:

narrowness (the property of being narrow; having little width)

Derivation:

wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Unusual largeness in size or extent or number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness

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

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

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

enormity (vastness of size or extent)

Derivation:

wide (having ample fabric)

wide (broad in scope or content)

wide (very large in expanse or scope)

wide (great in degree)

 Context examples 

I encompassed it almost round, before I could find a convenient place to land in; which was a small creek, about three times the wideness of my canoe.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)