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The room left over after you stop filling every silence with yourself.
means The quality of having ample, open room—physically, mentally, or emotionally—rather than feeling cramped or crowded.
from Traces back through French 'spacieux' to Latin 'spatiosus,' from 'spatium' meaning space or extent — the same root that gives us 'space' and 'spatial.' The '-ous' adds the sense of 'full of,' and '-ness' turns the quality into a noun. So the word has always meant, quite literally, the state of having room to spare.
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