greatness

Reading level: hard

Estimated CEFR level: B2 — Upper-Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence
noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number

From Middle English gretnesse, gretnes, greetnesse, from Old English grēatnes. Equivalent to great + -ness.

Greatness carries its own penalties. — Aesop's Fables; a new translation, Aesop
It was associated in their minds with greatness. — Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Frederick Douglass
The days of the greatness of Barsoom are over. — A princess of Mars, Edgar Rice Burroughs

illustriousness

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