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exˈtensiveness
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality or fact of being extensive.
1. Extensive character or nature; widespread range; comprehensiveness, breadth; also, the dimensions to which a thing is extended; extent.
1639Sir R. Baker in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxxx. 6 Of the extensiveness [of our watching] there can be none [question]. 1666J. Serjeant Let. of Thanks 99 Tradition, when a Heresy arises, gains more of Intensitiveness and vigor than it loses in it's Extensiveness. 1726Leoni tr. Alberti's Archit. II. 28 b, A sufficient number of Columns for the extensiveness of their area. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. I. 260 The extensiveness of the uses to which the article can be applied. 1880T. Hardy Trumpet-Major III. xxxv. 127 Her interests had grandly developed..to an extensiveness truly European.
†2. The fact of being extended; wide diffusion.
1656Jeanes Fuln. Christ 215 The bounty and liberality of men may be disinabled, by extensivenesse unto too many. 1768Hewson Lymph. System in Phil. Trans. LVIII. 223 The extensiveness of this system through so many classes of animals.
†3. Capability of being extended or dilated.
1691Ray Creation i. (1704) 30 We take notice of the wonderful dilatability or extensiveness of the Throats..of Serpents. 1708W. King Cookery i, What extensiveness can there be in their souls. 1755in Johnson. 1818in Todd.
4. = extensity.
1887W. James in Mind Jan. 2 Extensiveness, being an entirely peculiar kind of feeling..can itself receive no other name than that of sensational element. |