as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the immensity of the mountain was awe-inspiring, especially up close
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Recent Examples of immensity
Cianfrance captures Jeffrey’s misadventures inside the store as if his protagonist is trapped in a cage, underlining how tiny his fugitive life is compared with the immensity of his relationship with Leigh.
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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
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
The speed of the freeze was striking—but so was the immensity of the frozen plain stretching to the horizon.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
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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
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
The speed of the freeze was striking—but so was the immensity of the frozen plain stretching to the horizon.
—Alec Luhn, Scientific American, 20 May 2025
See All Example Sentences for immensity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for immensity
Noun
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But none of them came anywhere near the genocide of 2023–25 in terms of magnitude, severity and sheer brutality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Excluding disasters, sudden surges of this magnitude in requests for food or any other need are rare at 211s, and can signal both public worry and need, as happened in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Matthew W. Kreuter,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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The woman used her headlamp light to alert crews and in a photo of the mountain her location can be seen as a white point of light in the vastness of the peak.—
Alan Gionet,
CBS News,
8 Jan. 2026
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Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator, has attributed the vastness of the land bank, particularly in northeast Wyandotte, to 20th century redlining and southward and westward flight of the county’s white, wealthy and middle class families.—
Chris Higgins,
Kansas City Star,
30 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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My new collection would be spare and potent, a miniature version of my former enormity.—
Kenneth Turan,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Financial experts have repeatedly raised logistical concerns regarding the enormity of the payment and how it would be enacted.—
Time,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Immensity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immensity. Accessed 12 Jan. 2026.
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