immensityn.
/ɪˈmɛnsɪti/ The quality or condition of being immense.
1. Immeasurableness, boundlessness, infinity.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun]
endlessness1340
everbleving1340
infinityc1374
everlastingnessa1382
immensityc1450
infiniteness1534
infinition?1605
illimitation1610
immenseness1610
incomprehensibleness1611
incircumscriptibleness1615
boundlessnessa1619
indefinity1623
unlimitedness1631
unboundedness1640
infinitude1641
incomprehensibility1650
incircumscription1651
ever-beingness1674
extendlessnessa1676
indefinitudea1676
uncircumscribedness1679
interminability1681
interminableness1682
illimitedness1703
limitlessness1839
illimitability1841
illimitableness1845
uncircumscription1852
unconditionedness1854
unbeginningness1862
beginninglessness1865
ever-duringness1868
the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount > unmeasured or unmeasurable
unmeasuredness1435
immensityc1450
immeasurableness1561
immeasurability1824
measurelessness1854
c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 1384 He filled heven and erthe with his inmensitee.
1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1033 Infinity and immensity of excesse and defect.
1630 W. Prynne God no Impostor (rev. ed.) 34 Whose vast immensities..doe farre transcend our..finite vnderstandings.
1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ iii. ii. §10 It is repugnant to the immensity of God.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding ii. xiii. 76 This Power of repeating, or doubling any Idea we have of any distance..without being ever able to come to any stop or stint..is that which gives us the Idea of Immensity.
1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in Poems II. 153 Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie Thy Soul's immensity . View more context for this quotation
1874 J. A. Symonds Sketches Italy & Greece (1898) I. i. 11 The universe..becomes important to them in its infinite immensity.
2.
a. Vast magnitude; vastness, hugeness.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > hugeness
hugenessc1380
monstruousness1545
huginess1559
immanity1586
immenseness1610
immensity1652
enormity1792
colossality1800
enormousness1802
prodigiousness1832
gianthood1841
titanism1851
hugeousness1859
vastitude1876
jumboesqueness1882
monumentality1884
stupendiosity1912
1652 A. Wilson For Author in E. Benlowes Theophila Her poor little Orb appears to be A very Point to their Immensitie.
1790 Castles in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 80 347 The immensity of their number.
1883 Fortn. Rev. May 613 The immensity of the disaster increased the intensity of the disgrace.
b. An immense quantity or deal.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > [noun] > vastness of quantity or amount > (a) vast quantity or amount
worldOE
seaa1200
fernc1325
mountain1570
ocean1590
microcosm1611
immensity1778
vast1793
worldful1835
oceanful1838
megaton1971
1778 F. Burney Jrnl. 3 Aug. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 59 I have an immensity to write!
1834 H. Martineau Farrers of Budge-Row vii. 116 They say that an immensity of money will be raised by this income tax.
1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. viii. 476 Having drank immensities of Hungary wine.
1888 W. Rye Records & Record-searching 99 (note) A very slight expenditure of labour would save an immensity of searchers' time.
3. That which is immense.
a. absolutely, Infinite being or existence; infinity; infinite space.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite
infinity1377
infinite1587
infinitive1595
incomprehensibility1610
immensitya1631
infinitude1667
infinitum1682
unmeasured1812
endlessness1820
unconditioned1829
illimitable1884
out and out1890
boundless1909
a1631 J. Donne Annunciat. in Holy Sonn. ii. (R.) Thou..shutt'st in little room Immensity, cloister'd in thy dear womb.
1688 M. Prior Ode Exod. iii. 14 6 The mysterious gulf of vast immensity.
1695 R. Blackmore Prince Arthur ii. 53 Immensity is wrapt in Swadling Bands.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. lvii. 380 Who fills immensity with his presence.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. iii. 348 This Worker..has to..collect the monitions of Immensity.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. i. 239 Immensity is filled with this music.
b. An (or the) immense extent of something; a thing of immense or unmeasured extent.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [noun] > vast extent
widenessc1225
largenessa1400
ampleness1509
breadth1532
spaciousness1587
vastness1602
vastity1603
vastiditya1616
spaciosity1620
vastitude1623
latitude1650
immensity1797
1797 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. IV p. xvi It's tendency is to the ocean, to which it pays it's last tribute, and is finally lost in that immensity.
1821 Ld. Byron Cain ii. ii, in Sardanapalus 406 Did ye not tell me that..what I have seen, Yon blue immensity, is boundless?
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xlii. 382 This solid immensity of varied ice.
1886 F. Harrison Choice Bks. 3 A pathless immensity beyond our powers of vision or of reach.
c. plural. Beings or things that are immense or infinite.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > [noun] > infinity or that which is infinite > infinite things
immensity1839
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 266 A spirit nobler..Than all these bright immensities.
1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iv. iii. 348 He who can and dare trust the heavenly Immensities, all earthly Localities are subject to him.
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