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
Horizons suggest the unencumbered immensity of the Midwest.
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
The sheer immensity of the tent city is jaw-dropping, a hinterland oblivion of yurts and RVs, all stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The primitive black hole, however, doesn’t currently possess a voracious appetite to match its immensity.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
As bombs fell in the first months of the Blitz, an Australian sat in his London apartment drinking Calvados, reading accounts of early expeditions into his homeland, and likely experiencing for the first time an immensity of emptiness and a longing for the land of his childhood.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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Jeremy Lybarger, ARTnews.com, 6 Jan. 2025
The sheer immensity of the tent city is jaw-dropping, a hinterland oblivion of yurts and RVs, all stretching into the distance as far as the eye can see.
—Barrett Swanson, Harper's Magazine, 2 Jan. 2025
The primitive black hole, however, doesn’t currently possess a voracious appetite to match its immensity.
—Jack Knudson, Discover Magazine, 18 Dec. 2024
As bombs fell in the first months of the Blitz, an Australian sat in his London apartment drinking Calvados, reading accounts of early expeditions into his homeland, and likely experiencing for the first time an immensity of emptiness and a longing for the land of his childhood.
—Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 4 Dec. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immensity
Noun
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Recent data underscores the magnitude of the challenge.—
Masha Sedova,
Forbes.com,
15 May 2025
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Flares of this magnitude are uncommon, the service added.—
Joe Edwards,
MSNBC Newsweek,
15 May 2025
Noun
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Hence cutting funding to grants that are subject to rigorous competition highlights the enormity of the problem that US science faces at this moment, relative to its geopolitical rivals, especially China.—
Shivaram Rajgopal,
Forbes.com,
17 May 2025
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However, both lawmakers stressed the enormity of the $12 billion deficit.—
Kate Wolffe,
Sacbee.com,
15 May 2025
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“Immensity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immensity. Accessed 23 May. 2025.
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