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• n  amount or degree or range to which something extends
• n  the consequence of being lengthened in duration

• Dreiserians will hail Dawn for its candor, its shouldering, uncompromising lengthiness; antis will raise their eyebrows for the same reasons.
• Even the lengthiness weights and certifies a story that, if told concisely, could merely seem lurid.

• extension
• prolongation
• continuation
• protraction