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altitudinousness

altitudinousness noun: the quality of being very tall, high, or lofty.

Noun

altitudinousness (plural altitudinousnesses)

  1. the quality of being very tall, high, or lofty.
    • Even in a city synonymous with tall skyscrapers, the tower was exceptional in its altitudinousness.
    • He was attended on board by Dogolè and a number of dignitaries, from whom he was, in the first instance, distinguishable by still more imposing altitudinousness.1850, Ferdinand Werne, “Matta Lokono, and the Baris”, in Romance of Modern Travel: A Year-Book of Adventure, London: David Bogue, page 219

Examples of altitudinousness in a sentence

  • Bancroft improved the circumstance with a surprising mixture of altitudinousness and familiarity.1880, Charles Taber Congdon, Reminiscences of a Journalist, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 64:
  • ...the low truncated towers of Notre-Dame remain a landmark in the midst of this general un-altitudinousness.1900, William Walton, Paris: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day, volume VII, Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, page 124:
  • It is the altitudinousness of life, the endless stream of it which dwarfs individual climaxes...1937, Dorothea Grace Malm, Problems of Form in the Collectivist Novel: Romains, Huxley, Dos Passos, Wasserman, University of Minnesota...
  • ...familiarizing themselves with which is often attributed to pusillanimity, banality and platitudinousness of the soul rather than to the loftiness, altitudinousness and perfection thereof...2024, Mohamed Abulinein, “Introduction to the ST Book of An-Naẓarāt' ”, in The Reflections: An English Translation of Mustafa Lufti...

Forms of altitudinousness

pluralaltitudinousnesses

Origin of altitudinousness

From altitudinous + -ness.

Questions about altitudinousness

What does altitudinousness mean?
Altitudinousness means the quality of being very tall, high, or lofty.
How do you use altitudinousness in a sentence?
Bancroft improved the circumstance with a surprising mixture of altitudinousness and familiarity.
What part of speech is altitudinousness?
Altitudinousness is a noun.
What is the plural of altitudinousness?
The plural of altitudinousness is altitudinousnesses.

Words near altitudinousness in the dictionary

  1. altitudinal
  2. altitudinally
  3. altitudinarian
  4. altitudinarians
  5. altitudinous
  6. altitudinousness
  7. altitudinousnesses
  8. altivolant
  9. Altizer
  10. Altizers
  11. altizide

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