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单词 vastidity
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vastidityn.

Etymology: Irregular variant vastity n.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: vaˈstidity.
rare.
Vastness, vastitude.
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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
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 67 A restraint Though all the worlds vastiditie you had To a determin'd scope. View more context for this quotation
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair ii. xvii. 32 Their heads with curl'd vastidity of wig.]
1929 R. Bridges Test. Beauty iv. 190 The spiritual idea of Friendship, the huge vastidity of its essence.
1931 C. Williams Many Dimensions xvii. 260 In the foreground of that vastidity, he saw rising the Types of the Stone.
1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use iv. 83 The sense of vastidity of meaning in the sonnet derives from these many transformations of old into new.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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