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Capaciousness

noun
1.
Intellectual breadth.  Synonym: roominess.  "His unselfishness gave him great intellectual roominess"
2.
Spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building).  Synonyms: commodiousness, roominess, spaciousness.  "Roominess in this size car is always a compromise" , "His new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to"





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"Capaciousness" Quotes from Famous Books



... to conceive a system of government capable of acting over such an extent of territory, and such a circle of interests, as is immediately produced by the operation of representation. France, great and populous as it is, is but a spot in the capaciousness of the system. It is preferable to simple democracy even in small territories. Athens, by representation, would have outrivalled ...
— The Writings Of Thomas Paine, Complete - With Index to Volumes I - IV • Thomas Paine


Words linked to "Capaciousness" :   largeness, breadth, airiness, capacious, seating capacity, comprehensiveness, bigness


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