[f. BULKY + -NESS.] The quality of being bulky; largeness of volume. Used by Fairfax for ‘extension.’
1674. N. Fairfax, Bulk & Selv., 29. A thing being cleave some, not from its bulkiness, but inward emptiness mingled.
1691. Locke, Money, Wks. 1727, II. 24. Wheat … cannot serve instead of money; because of its Bulkiness.
1740. Gray, Lett., in Poems (1775), 100. The Gothic character and bulkiness of those volumes.
1848. Mill, Pol. Econ., III. xix. § 2 (1876), 368. The expense of transport … is much affected by the bulkiness of the goods.
