lengthy
adjective
having or being of great length; very long.
lengthiness
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a word derived from
lengthy.
Example Sentences
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The lengthiness of that process aside, there isn’t the faintest hint of legal violations — nor does the New York Post’s story suggest as much.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2022
And often lengthiness can be the absolute soul of wit, as in Proust or Dickens.
From New York Times ● Feb. 21, 2019
Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are two further reasons in extenuation of this lengthiness.
From Landmarks of Scientific Socialism "Anti-Duehring" by Friedrich Engels
His allegiance to Balzac remained unshaken, though he was conscious of lengthiness when he read him aloud.
From Life and Letters of Robert Browning by Robert Browning
