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Noun: largeness  laa(r)j-nus
  1. The property of having a relatively great size
    "The largeness of the warehouse impressed the visitors";
    - bigness
     
  2. Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness
    "they might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness";
    - extensiveness
     
  3. The capacity to understand a broad range of topics
    "a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views";
    - breadth, comprehensiveness
     
  4. The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
    "The largeness of his gestures seemed out of place in the small room";
    - pretentiousness, pretension, pretence [Brit, Cdn], pretense [N. Amer]

Type of: intelligence, magnitude, size, unnaturalness

Antonym: smallness, unpretentiousness

Encyclopedia: Largeness