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 vastness of my riches may sound unrealistic to you.
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Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
But the vastness was really about fostering conditions in which his spectral harmonies could thrive.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Part of Greenland’s appeal, indeed, comes from both the vastness of the territory and the variety of its geological features.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
One that promises to, within reason, wrangle the vastness inside all of us.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
And the Russian economy is resilient in some similar but very different ways, more related to autarky and just the vastness of its natural resources.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
The vastness was staggering (this is apparent in the drone shot of us in this Instagram post below, taken by our trip photographer James Roh).
—Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
At over 5,000 square miles, the vastness of Vatnajökull National Park can feel difficult to comprehend.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
And what bigger data pool was there to draw from than the vastness of interstellar space?
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
Chris John Amorosino, Hartford Courant, 30 Jan. 2026
But the vastness was really about fostering conditions in which his spectral harmonies could thrive.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 26 Jan. 2026
Part of Greenland’s appeal, indeed, comes from both the vastness of the territory and the variety of its geological features.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2026
One that promises to, within reason, wrangle the vastness inside all of us.
—Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 23 Jan. 2026
And the Russian economy is resilient in some similar but very different ways, more related to autarky and just the vastness of its natural resources.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Jan. 2026
The vastness was staggering (this is apparent in the drone shot of us in this Instagram post below, taken by our trip photographer James Roh).
—Maya Silver, Outside, 20 Jan. 2026
At over 5,000 square miles, the vastness of Vatnajökull National Park can feel difficult to comprehend.
—Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 20 Jan. 2026
And what bigger data pool was there to draw from than the vastness of interstellar space?
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 14 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vastness
Noun
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The relative strength index, or RSI, is a technical indicator that measures the speed and magnitude of recent price moves.—
Lee Ying Shan,
CNBC,
30 Jan. 2026
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The magnitude of the admissions slowdown nationwide is hard to estimate because there’s no reliable count of the number of individual programs that quietly decided, without any central administration directive, to pull back on their numbers.—
Michael T. Nietzel,
Forbes.com,
29 Jan. 2026
Noun
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There was hugely more of it and less of me, rendered infinitesimal in the presence of this immensity.—
Michael Pollan,
The Atlantic,
26 Jan. 2026
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Stevens chose to enact the story on a scale of mythic grandeur and timeless immensity.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
19 Jan. 2026
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
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The latter pushes for showing the bodies of dead Palestinian children on screen, to convey the enormity of the carnage in the war on Gaza.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
26 Jan. 2026
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The most impactful parts of these recordings are almost always the discussions of legacies; of how the families that students meet still live with the enormity of Holocaust trauma.—
Chad Gibbs,
The Conversation,
21 Jan. 2026
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“Vastness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vastness. Accessed 4 Feb. 2026.
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