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n. - The quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth); The property of having a relatively great size;

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  • A man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his views
  • The might have repercussions of unimaginable largeness
  • It is called largeness of heart; for the heart is often put for the intellectual powers.
  • Brendon's rope is just too huge for merely one "largeness" adjective; it must have three!
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