proportions

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the size, shape, or level of something:

a building of elegant proportions

I'm not very good at drawing people - I can never get the proportions right.

humorous She's a woman of generous proportions (= she is fat).

A small worry in the back of your mind can for no apparent reason assume massive proportions in the middle of the night.

This could end up being a disaster of global proportions.

Her comment, which sounded completely harmless out of context, took on different proportions when heard in context.