| 单词 | immensity |
| 释义 | immensity (once / 2759 pages) n Immensity is hugeness. When something is so large or numerous you can hardly believe it, it has the quality of immensity.. Something enormous is immense, and the quality of being immense is immensity. This is a strong word for truly gigantic things and creatures. You might, for example, comment on the immensity of the Grand Canyon, or the immensity of the night sky as seen from a boat on the sea. The noun immensity comes from the Latin word immensitatem, "immeasurableness." In other words, if it's too big to be measured, it has the quality of immensity. WORD FAMILYimmensity: immensities+/immense: immensely, immenseness, immenser, immensest, immensity USAGE EXAMPLESThis vignette gets its bathetic comedy from the collision of two scales: the immensity of war and its mass casualties hitting against private comforts. The New Yorker(Dec 31, 2016) Another committee or commission should do an in-depth inquiry of the immensity of the harm caused by FBI Director James B. Comey. Washington Post(Dec 26, 2016) Where Burtynsky’s epic industrial landscapes are least successful, they convey beauty and immensity without being intellectually engaging. The New Yorker(Dec 11, 2016) n unusual largeness in size or extent or number Syn|Hypo|Hyper enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness enormity vastness of size or extent bigness, largeness the property of having a relatively great size |
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