expansiveness

Definitions of expansiveness
  1. noun
    a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
    “the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed”
    synonyms: expansivity
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    type of:
    grandness, impressiveness, magnificence, richness
    splendid or imposing in size or appearance
  2. noun
    a friendly open trait of a talkative person
    synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity, rhapsody
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    type of:
    communicativeness
    the trait of being communicative
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