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Bigness vs Capaciousness - What's the difference?

bigness | capaciousness | Related terms |

Bigness is a related term of capaciousness.


As nouns the difference between bigness and capaciousness

is that bigness is the characteristic of being big while capaciousness is the quality of being capacious.

bigness

English

Noun

(es)
  • The characteristic of being big.
  • (obsolete) size
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1918 , year_published=2008 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burroughs , title=The Gods of Mars , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage= Among the ornaments … was a small mirror, about the bigness of a lady's hand glass, … }}

    capaciousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being capacious.
  • * 1818 George Crabb - English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order
    • Capacity is the abstract of capax, receiving or apt to hold ; it is therefore applied to the contents of hollow bodies : capaciousness' is the abstract of capacious and is therefore applied to the plane surface comprehended within a given space. hence we speak of the ''capacity'' of a vessel; and the '''''capaciousness of a room.