immensity
English
Etymology
From Middle French immensité, equivalent to immense + -ity.
Pronunciation
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Noun
immensity (countable and uncountable, plural immensities)
- (uncountable) The characteristic or state of being immense.
- 1807, William Wordsworth, “Ode [Intimations of Immortality]”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 153:
- Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie / Thy soul's immensity; […]
- (countable) An immense object.
Derived terms
Translations
characteristic or state being immense
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immense object