Extensive vs. Expansive — What's the Difference?

Large in extent, range, or amount.

Capable of expanding or tending to expand.

Of or relating to agricultural production that requires large areas of land but minimizes the input of labor or materials.

Broad in size or extent; comprehensive

Having a great extent; covering a large area; vast.

Open and communicative; talkative or effusive

(figurative) Considerable in amount.

Grand in scale

Serving to extend or lengthen; characterized by extension.

Comprehensive in scope or extent.

(physics) Having a combined system entropy that equals the sum of the entropies of the independent systems.

Talkative and sociable.

Having wide extent; of much superficial extent; expanded; large; broad; wide; comprehensive; as, an extensive farm; an extensive lake; an extensive sphere of operations; extensive benevolence; extensive greatness.

Able to be expanded.

Capable of being extended.

(mathematics) Exhibiting expansivity.

Large in spatial extent or range;

Having a capacity or tendency to expand or dilate; diffusive; of much expanse; wide-extending; as, the expansive force of heat; the expansive quality of air.

Having broad range or effect;

Causing expansion; as, the expansive force of heat.

Large in number or quantity (especially of discourse);

Of much expanse; wide-extending; as, an expansive view of the mountains.

Great in range or scope;

Friendly, open, and unrestrained in conversation or discourse; - of people; as, wine made the guest expansive.

Of agriculture; increasing productivity by using large areas with minimal outlay and labor;

Characterized by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur.

Able or tending to expand or characterized by expansion;

Impressive in scale;

Marked by exaggerated feelings of euphoria and delusions of grandeur

Friendly and open and willing to talk;