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
Not even the best paintings or photographs can ever trace its immensity; only fractions can be glimpsed and never held for long.
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Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
For Córdova, that path began with a moment of astonishment: watching a television program about neutron stars as a young woman, she was struck by the immensity of the cosmos and felt the pull of a question that would guide her for a lifetime — how does the universe work?
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 2 June 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
But others, thankfully, find a way to talk about the immensity of caregiving and domestic work without degrading it.
—Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 10 May 2025
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Tom Zoellner, AZCentral.com, 25 July 2025
For Córdova, that path began with a moment of astonishment: watching a television program about neutron stars as a young woman, she was struck by the immensity of the cosmos and felt the pull of a question that would guide her for a lifetime — how does the universe work?
—John Drake, Forbes.com, 2 June 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
But others, thankfully, find a way to talk about the immensity of caregiving and domestic work without degrading it.
—Elissa Strauss, Glamour, 10 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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There is typically a dearth of historical information about the conditions in which the vehicle went missing, and locating a sunken aircraft or a large ship in the vastness of the ocean is difficult and costly.—
Katie Hunt,
CNN Money,
7 Nov. 2025
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The vastness of the narrative is packed into compact poems that are propelled forward with stunning imagery and dialogue.—
Amber McBride,
Literary Hub,
5 Nov. 2025
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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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For many Americans, there might be a temptation to disbelieve the enormity of what has happened in the Gaza Strip.—
Lydia Polgreen,
Mercury News,
25 Oct. 2025
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So was the enormity of all that was lost, an era that has ended.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Immensity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immensity. Accessed 12 Nov. 2025.
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