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expansiveness

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ex·pan·sive  (k-spnsv)
adj.
1. Capable of expanding or tending to expand.
2. Broad in size or extent; comprehensive: expansive police powers.
3. Open and communicative; talkative or effusive: Wine made the guest expansive.
4. Grand in scale: an expansive lifestyle.
ex·pansive·ly adv.
ex·pansive·ness, expan·sivi·ty (kspn-sv-t) n.
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Noun1.expansiveness - a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed"
expansivity
impressiveness, magnificence, grandness, richness - splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora"
2.expansiveness - a friendly open trait of a talkative person
effusiveness, expansivity
communicativeness - the trait of being communicative
Translations
expansiveness [ɪkˈspænsɪvnɪs] N [of person] → carácter m sociable


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--Indeed, I believe that none but greenhorns and excessively Russian people feel an attraction towards the French; for, to any man of sensibility, such a compendium of outworn forms--a compendium which is built up of drawing-room manners, expansiveness, and gaiety--becomes at once over-noticeable and unbearable.
The Gambler by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
Indeed, Joseph Sedley, affected by the humble position in which he found his relations, and in the expansiveness and overflowing of heart occasioned by the first meeting, declared that they should never suffer want or discomfort any more, that he was at home for some time at any rate, during which his house and everything he had should be theirs: and that Amelia would look very pretty at the head of his table--until she would accept one of her own.
Vanity Fair by Thackeray, William Makepeace View in context
For in their interflowing aggregate, those grand fresh-water seas of ours --Erie, and Ontario, and Huron, and Superior, and Michigan, --possess an ocean-like expansiveness, with many of the ocean's noblest traits; with many of its rimmed varieties of races and of climes.
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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