EXPANSIVENESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

A friendly open trait of a talkative person

Synonyms:

effusiveness; expansiveness; expansivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("expansiveness" is a kind of...):

communicativeness (the trait of being communicative)

Derivation:

expansive (friendly and open and willing to talk)

Meaning:

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

Example:

the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed

Synonyms:

expansiveness; expansivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("expansiveness" is a kind of...):

grandness; impressiveness; magnificence; richness (splendid or imposing in size or appearance)

Derivation:

expansive (able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion)

expansive (of behavior that is impressive and ambitious in scale or scope)