expansiveness

1. 1.

   a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand

   “the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed”

   Synonymsexpansivity

   Broaderimpressiveness
2. 2.

   a friendly open trait of a talkative person

   Synonymseffusivenessexpansivity

   Broadercommunicativeness

Other forms of expansiveness

plural

expansivenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about expansiveness

What does expansiveness mean?

expansiveness means "a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in expansiveness?

expansiveness has 5 syllables: ex-pan-si-ve-ness. The stress falls on "si".

What is another word for expansiveness?

Close synonyms include expansivity, effusiveness, expansivity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is expansiveness a common word?

expansiveness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.