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UK
/ɛkspˈænsɪvnəs/
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NOUN
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a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed - a friendly open trait of a talkative person
How To Use expansiveness In A Sentence
- That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element, they have not. XIV. English Traits. Literature
- My nightly assignment, as the inhabitor of rental property, is to surf wildly the web and hunt for our new abode, the one set off in the nakedness of woods and the expansiveness of country. Outfoxed Diary Entry
- This expansiveness raised problems of rhetoric and tone.
- the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed
- The early systems had too specialty and the maintenance and expansiveness were not satisfying.
- Not only was our regular route structure an adventurer's dream, but Pan Am was often called upon to participate in countless evacuations and missions of mercy, which added to our sense of excitement and expansiveness. Helen Davey: Tales of Pan Am: "The Pool"
- Perhaps it's easier to adopt a problematic alternative than to live with less light, for with our abundant illumination - as with our easeful travel - we measure the expansiveness of our lives. Jane Brox: Light! Less Light! The Evolution Of Artificial Light
- Their detailed landscape paintings showed the huge expansiveness of American wilderness.
- The reductionists argued for the simplicity of tragedy; their rivals argued for the magnificent expansiveness of epic.
- But as our telling swells to include many stories, we are made that much greater by the expansiveness of our humanity -- warts, joys and all. Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson: Expanding Circles Of Thanks