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    EXPANSIVENESS

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A friendly open trait of a talkative personplay

    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 expandplay

    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)

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