bulkiness

English

Etymology

bulky +‎ -ness

Noun

bulkiness (usually uncountable, plural bulkinesses)

1. 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.