Etymology

broadness

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Today it means: The state, characteristic, or condition of being broad; breadth. Full definition →

Middle English brodnes ← Old English brādnes
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  1. Old English · inherited frombrādnes
  2. Middle English · inherited frombrodnes
  3. English todaybroadness

From Middle English brodnes (also as brednysse), from Old English brādnes, brǣdnys (“breadth, greatness, extent, surface; liberality”), equivalent to broad + -ness.

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