sublimity

[ suh-blim-i-tee ]

noun

, plural sub·lim·i·ties

1. the state or quality of being sublime.
2. a sublime person or thing.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sublimity¹

1520–30; < Latin sublīmitās height, equivalent to sublīm ( is ) sublime + -itās -ity

Example Sentences

Bailey talked about the “sublimity of nature” that he believes Hockney communicates in his pictures.

From The Daily Beast

I would not just then have traded off that steamboat for several square miles of snow-capped sublimity.

From Project Gutenberg

The loftiest pagan philosophy dwindled into insignificance before the sublimity of Christian hope.

From Project Gutenberg

The critics say that his sublimity of diction is sometimes carried to an extreme, so that his language becomes inflated.

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What is remarkable in the scenery is, that its sublimity is an inversion of the sublimity of almost all other grand scenery.

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There is a touch of sublimity in that, and the basia of Baal-Zeboub may well enough be more demoralising than those of Secundus.

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