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say it: ROO-mee-nuhs
roominess is a noun meaning "intellectual breadth". It carries 2 recorded senses.
intellectual breadth
“the very capaciousness of the idea meant that agreement on fundamentals was unnecessary”
“his unselfishness gave him great intellectual roominess”
spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building)
“the capaciousness of Santa's bag astounded the child”
“roominess in this size car is always a compromise”
“his new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to”
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 roominess 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.