EXTREMENESS Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

extremeness

noun

Definition of extremeness

as in excessiveness

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Noun

The excessiveness of Ken Russell, Joe Coleman, Tasha Tudor, clowns, migraines, Priscilla Presley, and the Winchester Mystery House.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
This excessiveness can hinder critical knowledge building because of the sheer amount of information that can be accessed simultaneously at any time.

— Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

Definition of excessiveness

Noun

Fernández hoped that seeing the extravagance of a pre-conquest world and hearing the poetic nature of the Nahuatl language helps to empower Latinos to feel pride in and learn more about their culture.

— Carlos De Loera, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2026
More rococo extravagance was revealed when the cake was cut into by the little Lyons nippy.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of extravagance

Noun

While science is often perceived as cold and overly logical, for Schroeder its practice stirs a humility and appreciation for the vastness of nature and the depth of time.

— Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026
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

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

Cape Ann’s distinctive, undulant geography combined pungent industry and village intensity with Atlantic immensity of sea and sky.

— Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Romantic; something about the fearsome, post-human immensity of these spaces clearly inspired him.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of immensity

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