as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
awed by the vastness of the prairie
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Recent Examples of vastness
The woman used her headlamp light to alert crews and in a photo of the mountain her location can be seen as a white point of light in the vastness of the peak.
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Alan Gionet, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator, has attributed the vastness of the land bank, particularly in northeast Wyandotte, to 20th century redlining and southward and westward flight of the county’s white, wealthy and middle class families.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 Dec. 2025
When faced with the vastness of nature, many people feel small.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 24 Dec. 2025
Today, that vastness has enabled China to mobilize resources for growth at a scale and speed that eclipse most competitors.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
For that reason, Lake Louise tends to draw big mountain and freeride skiers who come to explore the vastness of its back and west bowls.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
All the infinite points on a single line are nothing compared to the vastness of an entire plane made up of an infinite number of lines.
—Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
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
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
Alan Gionet, CBS News, 8 Jan. 2026
Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator, has attributed the vastness of the land bank, particularly in northeast Wyandotte, to 20th century redlining and southward and westward flight of the county’s white, wealthy and middle class families.
—Chris Higgins, Kansas City Star, 30 Dec. 2025
When faced with the vastness of nature, many people feel small.
—Madison Dapcevich, Outside, 24 Dec. 2025
Today, that vastness has enabled China to mobilize resources for growth at a scale and speed that eclipse most competitors.
—Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Foreign Affairs, 16 Dec. 2025
For that reason, Lake Louise tends to draw big mountain and freeride skiers who come to explore the vastness of its back and west bowls.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 1 Dec. 2025
All the infinite points on a single line are nothing compared to the vastness of an entire plane made up of an infinite number of lines.
—Big Think, 25 Nov. 2025
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
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vastness
Noun
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Somehow, this new sensation emitted an awareness of the magnitude in which skateboarding would warp my life, which only ratcheted up the anxiety of blowing it.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Jan. 2026
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Also, many of the quakes may be around the same magnitude, geologists said.—
Don Sweeney,
Sacbee.com,
11 Jan. 2026
Noun
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McCall urged survivors and others still grappling with the immensity of the tragedy to seek help themselves.—
Marlene Lenthang,
NBC news,
5 Dec. 2025
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To get at that immensity, Bell advances seven core arguments that encompass migration, the war’s human cost, the improbability of its outcome, naval power, trade, imperial crackdowns in other colonies and the spread of liberty.—
Maren Longbella,
Boston Herald,
28 Nov. 2025
Noun
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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
Noun
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My new collection would be spare and potent, a miniature version of my former enormity.—
Kenneth Turan,
The Atlantic,
7 Jan. 2026
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Financial experts have repeatedly raised logistical concerns regarding the enormity of the payment and how it would be enacted.—
Time,
Time,
7 Jan. 2026
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“Vastness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vastness. Accessed 15 Jan. 2026.
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