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expansiveness|ɛkˈspænsɪvnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
The quality of being expansive.
1. a. Tendency to expand. b. Wide-spreading character or nature.
1829Bentham Wks. (1843) XI. 18 What you say on this subject shows the expandedness and expansiveness of your mind. a1853Robertson Serm. Ser. iii. xiv. 172 The..affections of the Apostle Paul..tending to expansiveness rather than concentration. 1854H. Miller Sch. & Schm. xii. (1860) 122/2 The scenery..was imposing..from its bare and lonely expansiveness. 1857Toulm. Smith The Parish 11 While the..expansiveness of the Common Law will be thus shown. 1879Geo. Eliot Theo. Such ix, That would restrict the expansiveness of trade. 1884tr. Lotze's Metaph. 96 The..expansiveness of the gaseous elements.
2. Absence of reserve in feeling or speech; genial frankness, freedom, openness; unrestrained flow of sympathy or conversation.
1856Emerson Eng. Traits, Lit. Wks. (Bohn) II. 115 That expansiveness which is the essence of the poetic element. 1862Mrs. Gordon in H. A. Page De Quincey (1877) I. viii. 160 In the expansiveness of his own heart. 1864Sat. Rev. 9 July 45 Gifted female friends..can praise with a large, ungrudging expansiveness. 1867Lewes Hist. Philos. II. 520 In the expansiveness of private conversation. 1883G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Dec. 95/1 Who greeted Miles with..noisy familiarity and expansiveness. |