bigness

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bigness

/ˈbɪɡnəs/ UK, US

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From Middle English bignesse (“size”), equivalent to big + -ness.

noun bignesses · bignesse

archaic, countable, uncountable Size. His [a hart's] head when it commeth firſt out, hath a ruſſet pyll vpon it, the which is called Veluet,[…]. When his head is growne out to the full bigneſſe, then he rubbeth of that pyll, and that is called fraying of his head.
Similar: size, bigness, bulk, largeness, magnitude, scale
countable, uncountable The characteristic of being big. It was big—and Babbitt respected bigness in anything; in mountains, jewels, muscles, wealth, or words.

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@misc{bigness_2026,
  title = {bigness},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bigness},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}