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bigness

[big-nis]

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noun

the fact or condition of being large in size, extent, amount, etc.

Chiefly New England. size¹.

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immensity, massiveness, magnitude, amplitude, greatness, enormity, enormousness, size, hugeness

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Origin of bigness

First recorded in 1485–95; big¹ + -ness

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for bigness

The power of bigness corrupts by spreading the twisted logic of bigness.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition|James Poulos|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, we might now understand that bigness works in a similar way.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition|James Poulos|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The Liebeck jury intuited that the only way to punish this logic of bigness was to partake of it.
Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition|James Poulos|October 21, 2013|DAILY BEAST
The bigness, as evident in the Penguin Random House merger, has reached obscene proportions.
5 Ways to Fix Book Publishing|Anis Shivani|July 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Bigness is the bane of any creative or responsive activity, and publishing is no exception.
5 Ways to Fix Book Publishing|Anis Shivani|July 12, 2013|DAILY BEAST
But Chesterton's taste for bigness has come to his service in criticism.
G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study|Julius West
Wine and beer we have in plenty in the cellar, and the cheese I shall cut is as a cartwheel for bigness.
Not Quite Eighteen|Susan Coolidge
This was the fringe of Bigness's own sanctuary, and now Bibbs reached the roaring holy of holies itself.
The Turmoil|Booth Tarkington
Now she was suddenly aware of his bigness of soul which made him capable of an infinite tenderness and capacity to serve.
Georgina of the Rainbows|Annie Fellows Johnston
Capital has been in danger for forty years and labor is in danger now, of being fooled by its own bigness.
The Ghost in the White House|Gerald Stanley Lee

Word Origin and History for bigness

bigness

n.

late 15c., from big + -ness.

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper