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say it: LAHRJ-nis
largeness is a noun meaning "the capacity to understand a broad range of topics". It carries 4 recorded senses.
the capacity to understand a broad range of topics
“a teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject”
“a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views”
large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness
“the might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness”
“the very extensiveness of his power was a temptation to abuse it”
the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth)
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for largeness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.