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Fullness

noun

(Written also fulness)

Completeness over a broad scope. Synonym: comprehensiveness.

The property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing. Synonyms: mellowness, richness. "The cheap wine had no body, no mellowness" , "He was well aware of the richness of his own appearance"

The condition of being filled to capacity.

Greatness of volume. Synonyms: voluminosity, voluminousness.

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"Fullness" Quotes from Famous Books

... Divine Providence has been fusing the nations of the earth into one common brotherhood. Man has created nothing. The lightening would run its circuit in the Garden of Eden as well as when Morse made it man's messenger. In the fullness of time God has lifted the veil from human eyes to see the mysteries of His bounty, and so prepare a highway for the ...

— Five Sermons • H.B. Whipple

... prefer going again to Toledo, where we made only a day's demand upon the city's wealth of beauty when a lifetime would hardly have exhausted it. Yet I would not counsel any one to pass his whole life in Toledo unless he was sure he could bear the fullness of that beauty. Add insurpassable antiquity, add tragedy, add unendurable orthodoxy, add the pathos of hopeless decay, and I think I would rather give a day than a lifetime to Toledo. Or I would like to go back and ...

— Familiar Spanish Travels • W. D. Howells

... when he appeared in the Impeachment case, was in the fullness of his powers, in the fifty-ninth year of his age. At forty-one he had been appointed to the Supreme Bench of the United States at the earnest request and warm recommendation of Mr. Webster, then Secretary of State. Mr. Webster is reported ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... utmost military role must be the guaranteeing of a common inaggressive security; but it can, if it is to survive, it must, give all its constituent parts such a civilisation as none of them could achieve alone, a civilisation, a wealth and fullness of life increasing and developing with the years. Through that, and that alone, can it be made worth having ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... careers so often end under a cloud. I suppose she too must have lacked the saving dullness—and her career ended in Patusan. Our common fate . . . for where is the man—I mean a real sentient man—who does not remember vaguely having been deserted in the fullness of possession by some one or something more precious than life? . . . our common fate fastens upon the women with a peculiar cruelty. It does not punish like a master, but inflicts lingering torment, as if to gratify a secret, unappeasable spite. One would think that, appointed to rule on ...

— Lord Jim • Joseph Conrad

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