ENORMOUSNESS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

enormousness

noun

Definition of enormousness

as in magnitude

the quality or state of being very large the enormousness of the mall is such that one could shop at a different store for every day of the year

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Noun

An assault of that magnitude would almost certainly trigger a united NATO response.

— Ned Temko, Christian Science Monitor, 4 Sep. 2026
On a favorable pass, Tiangong can reach up to about magnitude –2, roughly as bright as Jupiter.

— Jamie Carter, Space.com, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of magnitude

Noun

Even Musk, despite his vow to take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy, seemed exhausted by the vastness of what his Department of Government Efficiency had taken on, and abandoned DOGE over a year earlier than planned.

— Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026
The book features portraits of puesteros between shots of domestic settings and local landscapes—the little that belongs to them and the vastness that does not.

— Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026

Definition of vastness

Noun

The script brilliantly lays that out to counteract some of the hugeness of her character.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.

— Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of hugeness

Noun

When visiting Ground Zero, Surdo said he was struck by the scale and the enormity of the destruction and the sulfurish smell, which were two things that couldn’t be grasped by seeing the site on television.

— Andis Robeznieks, Chicago Tribune, 8 Sep. 2026
His exhausted kin of Gainesville, having spent the morning very much alive and the enormity of a half-decade pummeled, agreed.

— Noah White, Miami Herald, 6 Sep. 2026

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