immensity
noun
im·men·si·ty
i-ˈmen(t)-sə-tē 
plural immensities
1
: the quality or state of being immense
the immensity of the sky
2
: something immense
… the gigantic temples of Egypt, those massive immensities of granite …—
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Edith HamiltonExamples of immensity in a Sentence
the immensity of the universe
She couldn't understand the immensity of their problem.
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Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 15 Oct. 2025
Between every frame a disjunctive gap intrudes, subdividing the whole back into its parts, and thereby confronting the viewer with the plethora of copy culture, a barely manageable immensity of data.
—Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 1 Sep. 2025
Yet Kukla’s bright, clean and rather infantilizing style is somehow incommensurate with the dark immensities of their subject.
—Book Marks
august 21, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
To appreciate the full moral weight and dramatic immensity of these moments means grasping the significance of the moments leading up to them—and the ones that come afterward.
—Justin Chang, New Yorker, 14 Aug. 2025
See All Example Sentences for immensity
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“Immensity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/immensity. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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immensity
noun
im·men·si·ty
im-ˈen(t)-sət-ē
plural immensities
1
: the quality or state of being immense
2
: something immense
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