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WIDENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Synonyms:
enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wideness" is a kind of...):
bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wideness"):
enormity (vastness of size or extent)
Derivation:
wide (having ample fabric)
wide (broad in scope or content)
wide (very large in expanse or scope)
wide (great in degree)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The property of being wide; having great width
Synonyms:
broadness; wideness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("wideness" is a kind of...):
breadth; width (the extent of something from side to side)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "wideness"):
heaviness; thickness (used of a line or mark)
Antonym:
narrowness (the property of being narrow; having little width)
Derivation:
wide (having great (or a certain) extent from one side to the other)
