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EXPANSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A friendly open trait of a talkative person
Synonyms:
effusiveness; expansiveness; expansivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("expansiveness" is a kind of...):
communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)
Derivation:
expansive (friendly and open and willing to talk)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
Example:
the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed
Synonyms:
expansiveness; expansivity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("expansiveness" is a kind of...):
grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)
Derivation:
expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)
expansive (of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope)
