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Meanings of massiveness in English

Catalan
embalum
Spanish
voluminosidad

An unwieldy largeness.

embalum

The property of being large in mass.

Synonyms
Examples for "bulkiness"
Examples for "bulkiness"
1
I felt a bulkiness below me and knew it was my purse.
Death du Jour
2
They threshed about, the bulkiness of the fur clothing hampering them.
The Time Traders
3
Ariel Sharon and Ian Paisley shared more than bulkiness and belligerence.
The Irish Times
4
Bulky Miss Wendover decidedly was, but she carried her bulkiness well.
The Golden Calf
5
But ridicule which savours of bulkiness woman had better leave to our sublime sex.
Glimpses of Bengal / Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindrana...
Usage of massiveness in English
1
All these public edifices have a uniform character of massiveness and solidity.
The Coming Race
2
It gives but a quivering shade and has no massiveness, nor symmetry.
Expositions of Holy Scripture / Ezekiel, Daniel, and the Minor P...
3
Their extraordinary largeness and massiveness are a satire on their present fate.
Italian Hours
4
It speaks of stability, elevation, massiveness, and of defence and security.
Expositions of Holy Scripture: Isaiah and Jeremiah
5
What heads those must have been that could bear such massiveness!
Passages from the French and Italian Notebooks, Volume 2.
6
The strength of life thus organized lies in its massiveness, in its effective plenitude.
The Moral Economy
7
Through all my being I could feel Her massiveness, Her power, and Her strength.
Harvest Home
8
Perhaps that was understandable in the light of the massiveness of the European war.
The Guardian
9
We wandered round and round the castle, wondering at the massiveness of the masonry.
A Yacht Voyage Round England
10
But the massiveness of the Cathedral has withstood German shrapnel.
Over There: War Scenes on the Western Front
11
She'd quickly gotten overwhelmed by the selection, and also the massiveness of the decision.
While i'm falling
12
Yet Chopin gave it dignity, largeness and a classic massiveness.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
13
Despite its apparent massiveness, Roman civilization was not a monolith.
Civilization and Beyond: Learning from History
14
But soon London's massiveness, I might say its very ugliness, began to impress me.
The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man
15
Not, you understand, that I am in any way underestimating the massiveness of the evening.
The Guardian
16
The huge, bearded parent rose in his massiveness against his other shoulder, hemming him in.
The Centaur
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Translations for massiveness
Massiveness through the time
Massiveness across language varieties
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