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
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.
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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
And while the vastness of the universe is worth considering, Bouwer had the most fun conjuring all of the fun and thrills out of a small-scale story.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
Music fans are still mourning the death of legendary singer D’Angelo and lauding how the vastness of his musical experiences, from gospel to funk to soul, permeates his catalog.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
As law enforcement efforts tightened along traditional routes, cartels shifted west, taking advantage of the vastness of the Pacific to evade detection.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator of no relation to Fran Sutton, attributes 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.
—Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
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
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
And while the vastness of the universe is worth considering, Bouwer had the most fun conjuring all of the fun and thrills out of a small-scale story.
—William Earl, Variety, 25 Oct. 2025
Music fans are still mourning the death of legendary singer D’Angelo and lauding how the vastness of his musical experiences, from gospel to funk to soul, permeates his catalog.
—Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 23 Oct. 2025
As law enforcement efforts tightened along traditional routes, cartels shifted west, taking advantage of the vastness of the Pacific to evade detection.
—Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, FOXNews.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Michael Sutton, a redevelopment coordinator of no relation to Fran Sutton, attributes 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.
—Kansas City Star, 18 Oct. 2025
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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vastness
Noun
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But none of them came anywhere near the genocide of 2023–25 in terms of magnitude, severity and sheer brutality.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
10 Nov. 2025
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Excluding disasters, sudden surges of this magnitude in requests for food or any other need are rare at 211s, and can signal both public worry and need, as happened in the first weeks of the COVID-19 pandemic.—
Matthew W. Kreuter,
CNN Money,
8 Nov. 2025
Noun
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Cianfrance captures Jeffrey’s misadventures inside the store as if his protagonist is trapped in a cage, underlining how tiny his fugitive life is compared with the immensity of his relationship with Leigh.—
Shirley Li,
The Atlantic,
15 Oct. 2025
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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
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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For many Americans, there might be a temptation to disbelieve the enormity of what has happened in the Gaza Strip.—
Lydia Polgreen,
Mercury News,
25 Oct. 2025
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So was the enormity of all that was lost, an era that has ended.—
Charlotte Varnes,
New York Times,
10 Oct. 2025
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“Vastness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vastness. Accessed 10 Nov. 2025.
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