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

Their words made real what Zilka had been observing for years — how the light in students’ eyes was dimmer, especially since Covid — and revealed the astonishing magnitude of the problem.

— Isabella Cueto, STAT, 13 Nov. 2026
Collaborations of that magnitude were practically unheard of in luxury at that time.

— Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 13 Nov. 2026

Definition of magnitude

Noun

Working with the cinematographer Joaquín Baca-Asay, Gray proves smart with his budget, capturing the vastness of the Russian underground just in one shot of a near-empty Brighton Beach banquet hall.

— Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 12 Nov. 2026
The oceans’ vastness can feel ominous, and though scientists have studied what lurks beneath, so much remains unknown.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of vastness

Noun

When Lee gets back to the van, his dad has passed away, and the immensity of it is too much for his body to bear.

— Amanda Whiting, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2026
In the wake of tragedy and separation, she is lost, wary of the immensity and opacity of her desire; anger crouches inside her, too, a fact that her divorce made mercilessly clear to her.

— Jamie Hood, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 2026

Definition of immensity

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

For perspective on the enormity of the measure before voters, one of the state’s existing down payment programs, California Dream For All, launched several years ago with $500 million, just 2% of the funding involved in Proposition 37.

— Audrey McGlinchy, Los Angeles Times, 24 Oct. 2026
As yet, and in spite of his former student’s prescience, Bell could not imagine the enormity of what would follow.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 Oct. 2026

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