WIDENESS

enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness

(noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number

wideness, broadness

(noun) the property of being wide; having great width

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

wideness (usually uncountable, plural widenesses)

The state or quality of being wide.

Large extent or expanse; breadth, broadness.

Synonyms

• width

Anagrams

• desinews, dewiness

Source: Wiktionary


Wide"ness, n.

1. The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room. "I landed in a small creek about the wideness of my canoe." Swift.

2. Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the wideness of the sea or ocean.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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FRISK

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