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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Greatness \Great"ness\, noun [AS. gre['a]tnes.]
1. The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.
2. Pride; haughtiness. [Obs.]
It is not of pride or greatness that he cometh not aboard your ships. --Bacon.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
greatness
noun
1: the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance
2: unusual largeness in size or extent [syn: {enormousness}, {grandness}, {immenseness}, {immensity}, {sizeableness}, {vastness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
151 Moby Thesaurus words for "greatness": accomplishment, ampleness, amplitude, area, ascendancy, authority, bigheartedness, bigness, body, breadth, broadness, brooding, bulk, caliber, capaciousness, chivalrousness, chivalry, comprehensiveness, consequence, conspicuousness, copiousness, coverage, covering, deanship, depth, diameter, dignity, dimension, dimensions, distinction, elevation, eminence, errantry, esteem, exaltation, excellence, expanse, expansion, expansiveness, extension, extensiveness, extent, fame, favor, gauge, generosity, generousness, gestation, girth, glory, grandeur, grandiosity, grandness, gravidity, gravidness, great heart, greatheartedness, greatness of heart, heaviness, height, heroism, high mightiness, high-mindedness, honor, idealism, importance, incomparability, incubation, influence, influentialness, inimitability, knight-errantry, knightliness, largeheartedness, largeness, lead, length, liberality, liberalness, loftiness, magnanimity, magnanimousness, magnitude, majority, mark, mass, measure, measurement, memorability, moment, nobility, noble-mindedness, nobleness, notability, note, noteworthiness, one-upmanship, openhandedness, outstandingness, precedence, predominance, predomination, preeminence, pregnancy, preponderance, prepotence, prepotency, prerogative, pressure, prestige, princeliness, priority, privilege, profundity, prominence, proportion, proportions, radius, range, rank, reach, remarkableness, renown, reputation, repute, right-of-way, salience, scale, scope, seniority, significance, sitting, size, skill, spaciousness, spread, stature, sublimity, success, supereminence, superiority, tallness, the family way, transcendence, transcendency, virtuosity, volume, weight, weightiness, wideness, width
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