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LONGNESS

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Duration as an extensionplay

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

duration; length (continuance in time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longness"):

length of service; longevity (duration of service)

Antonym:

shortness (the property of being of short temporal extent)

Derivation:

long (primarily temporal sense; being or indicating a relatively great or greater than average duration or passage of time or a duration as specified)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The property of being of long spatial extentplay

Example:

one gene causes shortness and the other causes longness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

length (the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "longness"):

extension; lengthiness; prolongation (amount or degree or range to which something extends)

elongation (the quality of being elongated)

Antonym:

shortness (the property of being of short spatial extent)

Derivation:

long (primarily spatial sense; of relatively great or greater than average spatial extension or extension as specified)

long (of relatively great height)

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