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[ noun ] a wide scope
Synonyms Examples "the sweep of the plains" Used in print (Harold Searles, "Schizophrenic Communication,"...)It is no coincidence that the hebephrenic patient , the most severely dedifferentiated of all schizophrenic patients , shows , as one of his characteristic symptoms , laughter - laughter which now makes one feel scorned or hated , which now makes one feel_like weeping , or which now gives one a glimpse of the bleak and empty expanse of man 's despair ; and which , more often than all these , conveys a welter of feelings which could in_no_way be conveyed by any number of words , words which are so unlike this welter in being formed and discrete from one another . |
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[ noun ] the extent of a 2-dimensional surface enclosed within a boundary
Synonyms Examples "the area of a rectangle" "it was about 500 square feet in area" Used in print (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)He looked out over the expanse of the compound . |
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