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English
Etymology
From tall + -ness.
Noun
tallness (usually uncountable, plural tallnesses)
- The quality or characteristic of being tall.
1904 January 29 – October 7, Joseph Conrad, Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, London, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers , published 1904, →OCLC:The long, skimpy soutane accentuated the tallness of his stature; […] and the straight, black bar of his joined eyebrows […] suggested something unlawful behind his priesthood, the idea of a chaplain of bandits.
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