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immensity

[ ih-men-si-tee ]

noun

  1. vastness; enormous extent:

    the immensity of the Roman empire.

  2. the state or condition of being immense.


immensity

/ ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ /

noun

  1. the state or quality of being immense; vastness; enormity
  2. enormous expanse, distance, or volume

    the immensity of space

  3. informal.
    a huge amount

    an immensity of wealth

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of immensity1

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word immēnsitās. See immense, -ity
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Example Sentences

The 1,252-square-mile southwest Texas expanse was stupefying in its beauty and immensity.

The immensity of choice protected by the law of our land continues to evolve with us.

Thus wanderingMy thought in this immensity is drowned;And sweet to me is shipwreck on this sea.

Everything relating to human affairs seemed dwarfed in such immensity.

Our people, separated from yours by the immensity of the seas and vast territories, could not harm your nation.

Such immensity is of night, and, added to solitude, weighed heavily on Gilliatt's mind.

One stands before it awed, stupefied by its immensity, its age, its strange manner of growing.

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