expansivity

expansivity
noun
1. a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand
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the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed

• Syn: ↑expansiveness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑expansive, ↑expansive (for: ↑expansiveness)
• Hypernyms: ↑impressiveness, ↑grandness, ↑magnificence, ↑richness
2. a friendly open trait of a talkative person
• Syn: ↑effusiveness, ↑expansiveness
• Derivationally related forms: ↑expansive, ↑expansive (for: ↑expansiveness), ↑effusive (for: ↑effusiveness)
• Hypernyms: ↑communicativeness
3. the fractional change in length or area or volume per unit change in temperature at a given constant pressure
• Hypernyms: ↑coefficient

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