Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being enormous or extreme; greatness beyond measure.
- noun Synonyms Immensity, vastness, hugeness. See
enormity .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being enormous.
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- noun Great
size or magnitude.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number
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Examples
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What has shocked poor James much more is a circumstance which your Boston Booksellers have no power to avoid: the "enormousness" of the charges in our Port here!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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'enormousness', and that it is closer to 'an outrageous, improper, vicious, or immoral act'.
The India Uncut Blog Amit Varma 2009
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What of the enormousness of the drink I had consumed, the feelings aroused in me by the heel were not pleasant.
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He had not realized the enormousness of the task of putting a fellow-man out of the world.
THE UNEXPECTED 2010
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The film must be judged by the enormousness of the gap between this originary text and this pale, commercial, toothless, non-denominational cash-in.
The Tooth Fairy (2010) Adam Roberts 2010
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My Romans Bible professor explained to us that if Paul could have stacked a hundred football fields end-to-end and as high and as far as those fields could reach, that would be the enormousness of his intent.
Do You Know Who I Am? Angela Thomas 2010
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Maybe one day you stand on top of a mountain and look out at the world and feel moved by its enormousness and grandeur and you don't call that feeling anything at all.
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That last wish was tagged on after I realized the enormousness of the country on the other side of the world.
When a Billion Chinese Jump Jonathan Watts 2010
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On the other side, obviously, is the enormousness of the task.
Robert Jordan, Wheel of Time 1: the Eye of the World (1990) Adam Roberts 2010
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On the other side, obviously, is the enormousness of the task.
Archive 2010-03-01 Adam Roberts 2010
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