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immensity

Pronunciation:  i'mensitee

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 Definition: [n]  unusual largeness in size or extent
 
 Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness
 
 See Also: bigness, enormity, largeness

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Im*men"si*ty\, n.; pl. {Immensities}. [L. immensitas:
cf. F. immensit['e].]
The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or
immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk;
greatness.

      Lost in the wilds of vast immensity.     --Blackmore.

      The immensity of the material system.    --I. Taylor.

 
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