[syn: effusiveness, expansiveness, expansivity]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
expansiveness \expansiveness\ n.
1. a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; as, the
expansiveness of their extravagant lifestyle was soon
curtailed.
[WordNet 1.5]
2. a friendly open trait of a talkative person.
Syn: effusiveness.
[WordNet 1.5]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Expansive \Ex*pan"sive\ ([e^]ks*p[a^]n"s[i^]v), a. [Cf. F.
expansif.]
1. Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate;
diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the
expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.
[WordNet sense 1]
[1913 Webster]
A more expansive and generous compassion. --Eustace.
[1913 Webster]
His forehead was broad and expansive. --Prescott.
2. causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat.
[1913 Webster +PJC]
3. of much expanse; wide-extending; as, an expansive view of
the mountains.
[PJC]
4. friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or
discourse; -- of people; as, wine made the guest
expansive. [WordNet sense 4]
Syn: effusive, talkative.
[WordNet 1.5]
5. characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and
delusions of grandeur. [WordNet sense 3]
[WordNet 1.5] -- Ex*pan"sive*ly, adv.
-Ex*pan"sive*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
expansiveness
n 1: a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the
tendency to expand; "the expansiveness of their extravagant
life style was soon curtailed" [syn: expansiveness,
expansivity]
2: a friendly open trait of a talkative person [syn:
effusiveness, expansiveness, expansivity]