EXPANSIVITY

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 ("expansivity" 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 ("expansivity" is a kind of...):

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

Derivation:

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

Meaning:

The fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure

Synonyms:

coefficient of expansion; expansivity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

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

coefficient (a constant number that serves as a measure of some property or characteristic)