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Meanings of largeness in English

Portuguese
pretensão
Catalan
fingiment
Spanish
apariencia

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

      pretensão
      Portuguese
      extensão
      Catalan
      extensió
      Spanish
      extensión

      The property of having a relatively great size.

          extensão

          The capacity to understand a broad range of topics.

                Large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness.

                      Usage of largeness in English
                      1
                      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
                      9
                      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
                      11
                      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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                      Translations for largeness
                      Largeness through the time
                      Largeness across language varieties
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