Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS II SECTION II. 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS


192. Size -- N. size, magnitude, dimension, bulk, volume; largeness &c adj.; greatness &c (of quantity) 31; expanse &c (space) 180; amplitude, mass; proportions.

193. Littleness -- N. littleness &c adj.; smallness &c (of quantity) 32; exiguity, inextension † ; parvitude † , parvity † ; duodecimo † ; Elzevir edition, epitome, microcosm; rudiment; vanishing point; thinness &c 203.

194. Expansion -- N. expansion; increase of size &c 35; enlargement, extension, augmentation; amplification, ampliation † ; aggrandizement, spread, increment, growth, development, pullulation, swell, dilation, rarefaction; turgescence † , turgidness, turgidity; dispansion † ; obesity &c (size) 192; hydrocephalus, hydrophthalmus [Med.] ; dropsy, tumefaction, intumescence, swelling, tumor, diastole, distension; puffing, puffiness; inflation; pandiculation † .

195. Contraction -- N. contraction, reduction, diminution; decrease of size &c 36; defalcation, decrement; lessening, shrinking &c v.; compaction; tabes † , collapse, emaciation, attenuation, tabefaction † , consumption, marasmus † , atrophy; systole, neck, hourglass.

196. Distance -- N. distance; space &c 180; remoteness, farness † , far-cry to; longinquity † , elongation; offing, background; remote region; removedness † ; parallax; reach, span, stride.

197. Nearness -- N. nearness &c adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity &c 199.

198. Interval -- N. interval, interspace † ; separation &c 44; break, gap, opening; hole &c 260; chasm, hiatus, caesura; interruption, interregnum; interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure † , rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha.

199. Contiguity -- N. contiguity, contact, proximity, apposition, abuttal † , juxtaposition; abutment, osculation; meeting, appulse † , rencontre † , rencounter † , syzygy [Astr.] , coincidence, coexistence; adhesion &c 46; touching &c v.. (touch) 379.