mightiness

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Recent Examples of mightiness Trump felled so much timber not because of the mightiness of his axe but because of the rot within the trees and the weakness of the wood. Jill Lepore, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025 In the last two years, Monty and Rose’s followers have found inspiration in their small-but-mightiness. Morgan Greene, chicagotribune.com, 26 Apr. 2021 When the past is invoked to stiffen the sinews of an epoch’s moods, bear out political imperatives, dominate the narratives of national heritage, and hold the center of middlebrow culture against all comers, mightiness and eminence become both end and means. William Hogeland, The New Republic, 25 Jan. 2021 This may reflect Mr Xi’s mightiness, or his weakness and insecurity. The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019 In our household, steak tartare is about the pure, unobscured flavor of the beef itself, that metallic, bloody, iron-rich mightiness. Gabrielle Hamilton, New York Times, 29 Dec. 2016
Recent Examples of Synonyms for mightiness
Noun
  • 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
Noun
  • To get a better idea of the vastness of the Milky Way, get out into the countryside where the sky is pitch dark.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Kidman laughed, delighted at the vastness of the universe.
    Wendell Steavenson, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • 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
  • 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
Noun
  • Unfortunately, Americans have proved themselves to be suckers for packaging that conveys a food’s healthiness, Bragg said.
    Yasmin Tayag, The Atlantic, 23 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • So was the enormity of all that was lost, an era that has ended.
    Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 10 Oct. 2025
  • Despite its enormity, the Peasants’ War and its bloody defeat have been forgotten in recent years.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 25 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • At a time when Germany still had a monarchy, the grandness of the Reichstag’s design was intended to rival any structure the monarchy would build for itself.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • All of these things were done without the bulkiness or power requirements of a pump, which has been one of the drawbacks of other hydraulic haptic systems.
    New Atlas, New Atlas, 9 Oct. 2025
  • The gray hood paired with the plaid give you the look of layering without the bulkiness, and the plaid comes in a few different colors.
    Anna Halkidis, Parents, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Scorpios are determined for greatness and will do anything to achieve that status — even things that are unscrupulous and vengeful.
    Lisa Stardust, PEOPLE, 17 Oct. 2025
  • True greatness will get most NFL players inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
    Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Oct. 2025

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“Mightiness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mightiness. Accessed 23 Oct. 2025.

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