bulkiness
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bulkiness (usually uncountable, plural bulkinesses)
- The characteristic of being bulky, or of having bulk.
- 1791 December 5, Alexander Hamilton, “Alexander Hamilton’s Final Version of the Report on the Subject of Manufactures”, in Harold C. Syrett, editor, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton[1], volume 10, New York: Columbia University Press, published 1966, →LCCN, →OCLC:
- The bulkiness of those commodities which are the chief productions of the soil, necessarily imposes very heavy charges on their transportation, to distant markets.