breadth
noun
1 breadth
The capacity to understand a broad range of topics:
— A teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject.
synonyms: comprehensiveness, largeness.
Roget 420:
light,
ray,
beam,
stream,
gleam,
streak,
pencil;
sunbeam,
moonbeam;
aurora.
day;
sunshine;
light of day,
light of heaven;
moonlight,
starlight,
sunlight
etc.
(luminary)
432;
daylight,
broad daylight,
noontide light;
noontide,
noonday,
noonday sun.
glow
etc.
v.;
glimmering
etc.
v.;
glint;
play of light,
flood of light;
phosphorescence,
lambent flame.
flush,
halo,
glory,
nimbus,
aureola.
spark,
scintilla;
facula;
sparkling
etc.
v.;
emication†,
scintillation,
flash,
blaze,
coruscation,
fulguration†;
flame
etc.
(fire)
382;
lightning,
levin†,
ignis fatuus [Lat.],
etc.
(luminary)
423.
luster,
sheen,
shimmer,
reflexion [Brit.],
reflection;
gloss,
tinsel,
spangle,
brightness,
brilliancy,
splendor;
effulgence,
refulgence;
fulgor†,
fulgidity†;
dazzlement†,
resplendence,
transplendency†;
luminousness
etc.
adj.;
luminosity;
lucidity;
renitency†,
nitency†;
radiance,
radiation;
irradiation,
illumination.
actinic rays,
actinism;
Roentgen-ray,
Xray;
photography,
heliography;
photometer
etc.
445.
[Science of light]
optics;
photology†,
photometry;
dioptrics†,
catoptrics†.
[Distribution of light]
chiaroscuro,
clairobscur†,
clear obscure,
breadth,
light and shade,
black and white,
tonality.
reflection,
refraction,
dispersion;
refractivity.
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Moby thesaurus: acreage, amount, amplitude, area, beam, bigness, body, broad gauge, broad-mindedness, broadness, bulk, caliber, catholicity, compass, comprehensiveness, continuum, cosmopolitanism, coverage, degree, depth, detail, diameter, dimension, dimensions, distance, ecumenicalism, ecumenicism, ecumenicity, ecumenism, emptiness, empty space, expanse, expansion, extension, extent, field, fullness, galactic space, gamut, gauge, girth, greatness, height, infinite space, interstellar space, large-mindedness, largeness, latitude, length, liberality, magnitude, mass, measure, measurement, noninsularity, nothingness, orbit, outer space, proportion, proportions, radius, range, reach, scale, scope, size, space, spacious mind, span, spatial extension, sphere, spread, stretch, superficial extension, surface, sweep, thickness, tract, unbigotedness, unhideboundness, unparochialism, unprovincialism, void, volume, wide-mindedness, wideness, width ... show more.
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