altitudinousness

English

Etymology

From altitudinous +‎ -ness.

Noun

altitudinousness (plural altitudinousnesses)

  1. the quality of being very tall, high, or lofty.
    Even in a city synonymous with tall skyscrapers, the tower was exceptional in its altitudinousness.
    • 1850, Ferdinand Werne, “Matta Lokono, and the Baris”, in Romance of Modern Travel: A Year-Book of Adventure‎[1], London: David Bogue, page 219:
      He was attended on board by Dogolè and a number of dignitaries, from whom he was, in the first instance, distinguishable by still more imposing altitudinousness.
    • 1880, Charles Taber Congdon, Reminiscences of a Journalist, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 64:
      ...Mr. Bancroft improved the circumstance with a surprising mixture of altitudinousness and familiarity.
    • 1900, William Walton, Paris: From the Earliest Period to the Present Day, volume VII, Philadelphia: George Barrie & Son, page 124:
      ...the low truncated towers of Notre-Dame remain a landmark in the midst of this general un-altitudinousness.
    • 1937, Dorothea Grace Malm, Problems of Form in the Collectivist Novel: Romains, Huxley, Dos Passos, Wasserman, University of Minnesota, page 9:
      It is the altitudinousness of life, the endless stream of it which dwarfs individual climaxes...
    • 2024, Mohamed Abulinein, “Introduction to the ST Book of 'An-Naẓarāt' ”, in The Reflections: An English Translation of Mustafa Lufti al-Manfaluti's 'An-Naẓarāt' – Part I, Austin Macauley:
      ...familiarizing themselves with which is often attributed to pusillanimity, banality and platitudinousness of the soul rather than to the loftiness, altitudinousness and perfection thereof...
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