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单词 extensiveness
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extensivenessn.

Etymology: formed as extensive adj. + -ness suffix.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: exˈtensiveness.
The quality or fact of being extensive.
1. Extensive character or nature; widespread range; comprehensiveness, breadth; also, the dimensions to which a thing is extended; extent.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun]
micklenesseOE
mickleheadc1300
greatnessc1330
micklehooda1400
muchheada1425
magnitude?a1475
muchness1494
largeness1528
ampleness1566
grandeur1599
extensiveness1639
stupendosity1828
massiveness1855
1639 Sir R. Baker in C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David (1886) VII. Ps. cxxx. 6 Of the extensiveness [of our watching] there can be none [question].
1666 J. Sergeant Let. of Thanks 99 Tradition, when a Heresy arises, gains more of Intensitiveness and vigor than it loses in it's Extensiveness.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture II. 28 b A sufficient number of Columns for the extensiveness of their area.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 260 The extensiveness of the uses to which the article can be applied.
1880 T. Hardy Trumpet-major III. xxxv. 127 Her interests had grandly developed..to an extensiveness truly European.
2. The fact of being extended; wide diffusion.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > spreading or diffusion > [noun] > condition of being > widely, of something immaterial
latitude1612
diffusednessa1626
diffusivenessa1631
spread1644
extensiveness1656
worldwideness1890
globality1931
1656 H. Jeanes Treat. Fulnesse of Christ 215 in Mixture Scholasticall Divinity The bounty and liberality of men may be disinabled, by extensivenesse unto too many.
1769 W. Hewson in Philos. Trans. 1768 (Royal Soc.) 58 223 The extensiveness of this system through so many classes of animals.
3. Capability of being extended or dilated.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > extension in space > [noun] > extension or stretching > capacity for
extendibility1477
extension1594
extensibilitya1640
extensiveness1701
extensibleness1727
the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > pliableness > [noun] > elasticity > capability of being stretched
extendibility1477
extension1594
extensibilitya1640
tensibility1676
extensiveness1701
extensibleness1727
distensibility1758
stretch1875
stretchability1940
stretchiness1963
1701 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 3) i. 30 We take notice of the wonderful dilatability or extensiveness of the Throats..of Serpents.
1712 W. King Let. in Art of Cookery (ed. 2) 2 What Extensiveness can there be in their souls?
1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.
1818 in H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang.
4. = extensity n.
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the mind > mental capacity > psychology > psychology of perception > process of perception > [noun] > perception of space > breadth of sensation
extensity1874
extensiveness1887
1887 W. James in Mind 12 2 Extensiveness, being an entirely peculiar kind of feeling..can itself receive no other name than that of sensational element.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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