expansiveness

Quality of spreading

Expansiveness is the quality of being broad, open, or unrestrained.

A landscape has expansiveness when it stretches wide; a person has expansiveness when they're generous, communicative, or emotionally open: His expansiveness at dinner surprised everyone—he's usually so guarded.

The word can describe physical extent, emotional warmth, or ambitious scope: the expansiveness of her vision for the company.

spatial

vastness

State of being immense

breadth · scope · reach · stretch · sweep · spread · amplitude · spaciousness · roominess · openness

emotional

openness

Quality of being accessible

welcome · inclusivity · acceptance · generosity · magnanimity · largesse · liberality · big-heartedness · open-heartedness · effusiveness

freedom

liberation

Release from constraint

unbounded · unrestricted · unconstrained · limitless · boundless · autonomy · independence · latitude · leeway · release

thought

vision

Ability to see

open-mindedness · comprehensiveness · thoroughness · scope · depth · perspective · far-reaching · wide-ranging · holistic · inclusive

growth

development

Progress toward maturity

enlargement · augmentation · amplification · spreading · broadening · widening · escalation · increase · surge · boom

Categories
Opposites
scope or breadth

expansivenessnarrowness

Confined width quality

restrictiveness · limitedness · narrow-mindedness · confinement · constraint

communication style

expansivenessconciseness

Quality of being brief

brevity · terseness · succinctness · laconicism · pithiness

emotional openness

expansivenessreserve

Supply kept back

guardedness · reticence · withdrawal · closedness · aloofness

Family

expand, expansion, expanse, expanded, expansive, expansions, expansively, expander, expanses

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Used worldwide · Timeless · Abstract · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G