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LONGNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Duration as an extension
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("longness" is a kind of...):
duration; length (continuance in time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longness"):
length of service; longevity (duration of service)
Antonym:
shortness (the property of being of short temporal extent)
Derivation:
long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being of long spatial extent
Example:
one gene causes shortness and the other causes longness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("longness" is a kind of...):
length (the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longness"):
extension; lengthiness; prolongation (amount or degree or range to which something extends)
elongation (the quality of being elongated)
Antonym:
shortness (the property of being of short spatial extent)
Derivation:
long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)
long (of relatively great height)
