monstrousness

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Noun
  • His novels, especially the later ones, were rigorous, ecstatic immensities unlike anything that anticipated them.
    Becca Rothfeld, New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2026
  • This is the brilliance and haunting immensity of Cauleen Smith’s The Warden, 2025.
    Horace D. Ballard, Artforum, 22 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Originally staged at Avignon in 2025, the play follows a father and daughter whose bond is tested across the vastness of space as one of them starts a new life on Mars while Earth deteriorates.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • The majesty of the natural world and the incomprehensible vastness of space are almost infinitely rearrangeable variables for documentarians.
    David Faris, TheWeek, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • There was a bigness to not just the melodies and choruses, but to the emotions being expressed.
    Brendan Hay, SPIN, 13 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.
    Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
  • 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
Noun
  • The director, Antoine Fuqua, working with a script by John Logan, portrays Michael as an emotionally stunted and grievously wounded artist of historic greatness.
    Sheldon Pearce, New Yorker, 24 Apr. 2026
  • Every parent wants their child to succeed, but some parents, like Esther Wojcicki, are especially adept at inspiring greatness in their child.
    Jacqueline Munis, Fortune, 23 Apr. 2026
Noun
  • But there’s an uncertainty of around 20% on each of those figures (and, correspondingly, for the redshift as well), as a lower-mass merger that was closer or a higher-mass merger that was more distant would produce a signal with roughly the same amplitude.
    Big Think, Big Think, 3 Apr. 2026
  • In recent papers, researchers have bootstrapped the Veneziano amplitude, the formula for the scattering of two open strings, as the unique solution that follows from various sets of starting assumptions.
    Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 23 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • There are no great surprises from here on out, though the sheer, lusty grossness of the fallout is occasionally startling.
    Guy Lodge, Variety, 16 Apr. 2026
  • If an exclamation point only signified gore and grossness, this gothic rock opera would more than qualify.
    Rachel Simon, Vulture, 6 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • This clever design reduces the bulkiness of standard models and stays hidden under your clothing via different-sized inserts.
    Pamela Brill, Parents, 7 Apr. 2026
  • Remove bulkiness from thick hair by opting for a shaggy pixie.
    Audrey Noble, InStyle, 13 Jan. 2026
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“Monstrousness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/monstrousness. Accessed 1 May. 2026.

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