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
The speed of the freeze was striking—but so was the immensity of the frozen plain stretching to the horizon.
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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
Shouldn’t something similar apply to technology, given the immensity of its influence?
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The resulting Hubble Deep Field image revealed about 3,000 distant galaxies, offering humanity's first profound look into the universe's true immensity and revealing a cosmos teeming with galaxies, even at extreme distances.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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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
Shouldn’t something similar apply to technology, given the immensity of its influence?
—Karl Ove Knausgaard, Harpers Magazine, 29 Apr. 2025
The resulting Hubble Deep Field image revealed about 3,000 distant galaxies, offering humanity's first profound look into the universe's true immensity and revealing a cosmos teeming with galaxies, even at extreme distances.
—Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 24 Apr. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for immensity
Noun
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The magnitude of loss can render even the most eloquent voices speechless.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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Remember, magnitude is the scale used by astronomers to chart the apparent brightness of an object in the night sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The country spans 11 different time zones, making its vastness its biggest weakness in defending against Ukrainian drone attacks.—
David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Our Universe may be full of stars, galaxies, and a cosmic web of large-scale structure, all separated by the vastness of empty space between them, but it wasn’t born that way.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 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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Not many at the time seemed to recognize the enormity of the trade to reacquire him.—
Jay King,
New York Times,
30 Sep. 2025
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Despite its enormity, the Peasants’ War and its bloody defeat have been forgotten in recent years.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Sep. 2025
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“Immensity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/immensity. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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