Definition of Breadth

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Definition of Breadth
	Breadth Distance from side to side of any surface or thing; measure across, or at right angles to the length; width. Related Definitions: Across, Angles, Any, At, Distance, From, Length, Measure, Of, Or, Right, Side, Surface, The, Thing, To, Width

Breadth Quotations

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Compassion, in which all ethics must take root, can only attain its full breadth and depth if it embraces all living creatures and does not limit itself to mankind.
Albert Schweitzer

Narrative is linear, but action has breadth and depth as well as height and is solid.
Thomas Carlyle

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than its depth.
Marilyn vos Savant

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.
Diogenes

Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.
Edith Wharton

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
Irving Babbitt

Thus, that one can find no place to walk through the breadth of the earth is not because the earth is not tranquil but because the danger to every step of the traveler lies generally with words.
Xun Zi

A collective tyrant, spread over the length and breadth of the land, is no more acceptable than a single tyrant ensconced on his throne.
Georges Clemenceau

If we have the opportunity to be generous with our hearts, ourselves, we have no idea of the depth and breadth of love's reach.
Margaret Cho

Breadth Translations

breadth in French is travers
breadth in German is Breite
breadth in Latin is amplitudo

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