Tallness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or characteristic of being tall. uncountable, usually

    "The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits."

  2. 2
    the property of being taller than average stature wordnet
  3. 3
    the vertical dimension of extension; distance from the base of something to the top wordnet

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altitudeceilingelevationeminenceexaltationgangliness

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"The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows[…] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits."

Etymology

From tall + -ness.

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