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Tallness

noun

The vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top. Synonym: height.

The property of being taller than average stature.

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"Tallness" Quotes from Famous Books

... behold you once again When next November's gales have stripped the leaf. Then, while your upward flight you grandly strain, May I be there to add you to my sheaf; And may they praise your tallness, saying "This Was such a bird as men are proud ...

— The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch • R. C. Lehmann

... better not stay all night!' her mother exclaimed, but without moving. The girl moved, after a moment's hesitation; she rose and accompanied Jasper into the other room. I observed that her slim tallness showed to advantage as she walked and that she looked well as she passed, with her head thrown back, into the darkness of the other part of the house. There was something rather marked, rather surprising (I scarcely knew why, for the act was simple enough) in her doing so, and perhaps it ...

— A London Life; The Patagonia; The Liar; Mrs. Temperly • Henry James

... possible appreciation of the beautiful, within these limits certain elements are intrinsically more pleasing than others. Those elements of experience, in the first place, more readily acquire aesthetic values, which in themselves strikingly impress the senses. Thus tallness in a man, because it is in the first place striking, becomes readily incorporated into our standard of the beautiful. And all elements in themselves beautiful, the human eye, the curve of the arm, the wave of ...

— Human Traits and their Social Significance • Irwin Edman

Words linked to "Tallness" : tall, high, lowness, height, low, loftiness, stature, shortness, highness, dimension