enormousness

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E0152800 (ĭ-nôr′məs)adj.1. a. Very great in size, extent, or amount.b. Very great in scope or import: enormous influence.2. Archaic Very wicked; heinous.

[From Latin ēnormis, unusual, huge, monstrous : ē-, ex-, ex- + norma, norm; see gnō- in Indo-European roots. Sense 2, from Middle English enormious, from Latin ēnormis.]

e·nor′mous·ly adv.e·nor′mous·ness n.Synonyms: enormous, immense, huge, gigantic, colossal, mammoth, tremendous, gargantuan, vast
These adjectives describe what is extraordinarily large. Enormous suggests a marked excess beyond the norm in size, amount, or degree: an enormous boulder.
Immense refers to boundless or immeasurable size or extent: an immense sky.
Huge especially implies greatness of size or capacity: a huge tanker.
Gigantic refers to size likened to that of a giant: a gigantic redwood tree.
Colossal suggests a hugeness that elicits awe or taxes belief: a valley ringed by colossal mountains.
Mammoth is applied to something of unwieldy hugeness: "mammoth stone figures in ... buckled eighteenth-century pumps, the very soles of which seem mountainously tall" (Cynthia Ozick).
Tremendous suggests awe-inspiring or fearsome size: a tremendous waterfall.
Gargantuan stresses greatness of size or capacity and often suggests extravagance or excess: "Dense schools of menhaden ... slurp up enormous quantities of plankton and detritus like gargantuan vacuum cleaners" (H. Bruce Franklin).
Vast refers to greatness of extent, size, area, or scope, and is often applied to what inspires a sense of grandeur or awe: "Another vast mountain of darkness rose, towering up like a wave that should engulf the world" (J.R.R. Tolkien).

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enormousness - unusual largeness in size or extent or numberimmenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness, grandness, greatnessbigness, largeness - the property of having a relatively great sizeenormity - vastness of size or extent; "in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size"; "universities recognized the enormity of their task"

enormousness

nounThe quality of being enormous:hugeness, immenseness, immensity, prodigiousness, stupendousness, tremendousness, vastness.

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enormous

(iˈnoːməs) adjective very large. The new building is enormous; We had an enormous lunch.巨大的eˈnormousness noun巨大eˈnormity noun1. great wickedness. 凶暴2. hugeness. 巨大，庞大

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noun the quality of being enormous

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noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number

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