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bulkiness|ˈbʌlkɪnɪs|
[f. bulky a. + -ness.]
The quality of being bulky; largeness of volume. Used by Fairfax for ‘extension’.
1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 29 A thing being cleave some, not from its bulkiness, but inward emptiness mingled. 1691Locke Money Wks. 1727 II. 24 Wheat..cannot serve instead of money; because of its Bulkiness. 1740Gray Let. in Poems (1775) 100 The Gothic character and bulkiness of those volumes. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. iii. xix. §2 (1876) 368 The expense of transport..is much affected by the bulkiness of the goods. |