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Meanings of largeness in anglès

portuguès
pretensão
català
fingiment
espanyol
apariencia

The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)

fingiment
portuguès
extensão
català
extensió
espanyol
extensión

The property of having a relatively great size.

extensió
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Examples for "pretension"
Examples for "pretension"
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That's early Settlement Years use, or just hyper-educated, kanji-scribbling, First Families pretension.
Woken furies
2
She is particularly good at nailing the exorbitant pretension of their décor.
The Guardian
3
One recent story nicely summed up his zip and lack of pretension.
The Irish Times
4
He has remained an unrepentant redneck, and Hustler promotes pornography without pretension.
The new yorker
5
Thus was the pretension of State Rights made the apology for imbecility.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 72, October, 1863 / A Magaz...
1
While tolerant of kinds in literature, he should be intolerant of pretentiousness.
The Art of Letters
2
But everywhere the ill-assorted marriage of pretentiousness and neediness was apparent.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment: First Series
3
Pollert, who, in spite of her pretentiousness, met with favour from the public.
My Life — Volume 1
4
Her mother mocked her silence as another evidence of ridiculous pretentiousness.
Linda Condon
5
This deceptive title, not unpredictably, reeks of bourgeois pretentiousness and pomposity.
The Irish Times

The capacity to understand a broad range of topics.

Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness.

Usage of largeness in anglès
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There was epic largeness in the circuit of the plainsman's daring plans.
The Eagle's Heart
2
There was a largeness and confidence in them that carried me away.
Adventures in Friendship
3
The one thing it loved to talk about was expansion and largeness.
Orthodoxy
4
There is largeness of stroke in this list, and a wide prospect.
Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Vol...
5
A horrible perception of the largeness of the world swept over him.
A Mountain Woman
6
His intellectual generosity was a part of the same largeness of nature.
William Ewart Gladstone
7
He has yet to add to this style the largeness of nature.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843
8
That was an unusual bargain, owing to the largeness of my order.
Daddy-Long-Legs
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Such a pretty sight was good to see for innocence and largeness.
Mary Anerley: A Yorkshire Tale
10
Their extraordinary largeness and massiveness are a satire on their present fate.
Italian Hours
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Still, it is very remarkable to find this new largeness of mind.
As We Are and As We May Be
12
My largeness, calmness, majesty, out of the long stretch of my life.
Leaves of Grass
13
Therefore, and because of the other's condescending largeness, his reply was cold.
Winner Take All
14
That the largeness of the number will reduce the individual cost.
In Darkest England, and the Way Out
15
The largeness of the number who are in communion with us.
A Narrative of some of the Lord's Dealings with George Müller. P...
16
There is as much essential greatness in littleness as in largeness.
Lessons in Life; A Series of Familiar Essays
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Largeness through the time
Largeness across language varieties
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