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GREATNESS

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• GREATNESS (noun)
The noun GREATNESS has 2 senses:

1. the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
2. unusual largeness in size or extent or number

Familiarity information: GREATNESS used as a noun is rare.

• GREATNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

greatness; illustriousness

Hypernyms ("greatness" is a kind of...):

importance (the quality of being important and worthy of note)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Unusual largeness in size or extent or number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

enormousness; vastness; sizeableness; immensity; immenseness; greatness; grandness; wideness

Hypernyms ("greatness" is a kind of...):

bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "greatness"):

enormity (vastness of size or extent)

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