ranginess

Long-limbed loose build

Ranginess is the quality of being rangy—tall and lean with long limbs.

It suggests a loose-jointed, athletic build: His ranginess made him a natural for basketball.

The word can also describe something sprawling or extensive, like terrain that stretches out in all directions.

lankiness

gangly

Awkwardly tall and thin

willowy · leggy · wiry · reedy · stringy · angular · rawboned · gangling · loose-limbed · coltish

athleticism

lean

Lacking fat; incline

limber · athletic · flexible · springy · nimble · striding · loping · endurance · stamina · wiry

spaciousness

expansiveness

Quality of great extent

sprawl · expanse · breadth · extent · spread · roaming · far-reaching · unbounded · rambling · sweeping

Opposites
body type/build

ranginessstockiness

Thick, solid body type

compactness · squatness · stumpiness · chunkiness · thickness

physical compactness

ranginesscompactness

State of being compressed

tightness · denseness · concentration · compression

Family

range, arrange, arranged, arrangement, ranging, ranger, ranged, ranges, rangers

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