voluminousness

Voluminousness is the quality or state of being voluminous: having great volume, extent, or quantity. The term can describe physical size as well as figurative abundance, such as a voluminous amount of text, a voluminous dataset, or a voluminous landscape.

Voluminousness derives from the adjective voluminous, from Latin voluminosus “full of folds” from volumen “roll, volume,” via Old French volumineux, into English.

In geometry and physics, voluminousness is not a standard technical term; volume remains the measure of three-dimensional space. As a property of objects, voluminousness denotes a capacity to occupy or contain substantial space. In everyday language, voluminous describes objects with large dimensions or bulk, while in writing and data contexts it signals breadth: voluminous books, voluminous correspondence, a voluminous data archive.

The noun voluminousness is comparatively rare; more common are the adjective voluminous and the noun volume. Voluminousness tends to appear in formal or descriptive prose and may imply thoroughness or unwieldiness depending on context.

Related concepts include volume, spaciousness, and breadth; in literary contexts, voluminous writing may also be described as verbose.