bigness

[ big-nis ]

/ ˈbɪg nɪs /

the fact or condition of being large in size, extent, amount, etc.

Chiefly New England. size¹.

Origin of bigness

First recorded in 1485–95; big¹ + -ness

The power of bigness corrupts by spreading the twisted logic of bigness.

Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition |James Poulos |October 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
If absolute power corrupts absolutely, we might now understand that bigness works in a similar way.

Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition |James Poulos |October 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The Liebeck jury intuited that the only way to punish this logic of bigness was to partake of it.

Supersize Me, Your Honor: Liebeck v. McDonald’s and Our Era of Ambition |James Poulos |October 21, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
The bigness, as evident in the Penguin Random House merger, has reached obscene proportions.

5 Ways to Fix Book Publishing |Anis Shivani |July 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST

Bigness is the bane of any creative or responsive activity, and publishing is no exception.

5 Ways to Fix Book Publishing |Anis Shivani |July 12, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
But Chesterton's taste for bigness has come to his service in criticism.

G. K. Chesterton, A Critical Study |Julius West
Wine and beer we have in plenty in the cellar, and the cheese I shall cut is as a cartwheel for bigness.

Not Quite Eighteen |Susan Coolidge
This was the fringe of Bigness's own sanctuary, and now Bibbs reached the roaring holy of holies itself.

The Turmoil |Booth Tarkington
Now she was suddenly aware of his bigness of soul which made him capable of an infinite tenderness and capacity to serve.

Georgina of the Rainbows |Annie Fellows Johnston
Capital has been in danger for forty years and labor is in danger now, of being fooled by its own bigness.

The Ghost in the White House |Gerald Stanley Lee