The spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume.

Roget 104: repetition, iteration, reiteration, harping, recurrence, succession, run; battology, tautology; monotony, tautophony; rhythm etc. 138; diffuseness, pleonasm, redundancy.    chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello^†, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe [Fr.], rifacimento [It], recapitulation.    cuckoo etc. (imitation) 19; reverberation etc. 408; drumming etc. (roll) 407; renewal etc. (restoration) 660.    twice-told tale; old story, old song; second edition, new edition; reappearance, reproduction, recursion [Comp.]; periodicity etc. 138.    ... show more

Roget 573: diffuseness etc. adj.; amplification etc. v.; dilating etc. v.; verbosity, verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [Lat.]; flow of words etc. (loquacity) 584; looseness.    Polylogy^†, tautology, battology^†, perissology^†; pleonasm, exuberance, redundancy; thrice-told tale; prolixity; circumlocution, ambages^†; periphrase^†, periphrasis; roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; pennya-lining; richness etc. 577.    ... show more