Enormousness

e·nor·mous  (-nôrms)

adj.

1. Very great in size, extent, number, or degree.

2. Archaic Very wicked; heinous.

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

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e·normous·ly adv.

e·normous·ness n.

Synonyms: enormous, immense, huge, gigantic, colossal, mammoth, tremendous, stupendous, 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: immense pleasure.
Huge especially implies greatness of size or capacity: a huge success.
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 colossal ancient temple.
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: ate a tremendous meal.
Stupendous implies size that astounds or defies description: "The whole thing was a stupendous, incomprehensible farce" (W. Somerset Maugham).
Gargantuan especially stresses greatness of capacity, as for food or pleasure: a gargantuan appetite.
Vast refers to greatness of extent, size, area, or scope: "Of creatures, how few vast as the whale" (Herman Melville).

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

enormousness - unusual largeness in size or extent or number immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness, grandness, greatness bigness, largeness - the property of having a relatively great size enormity - 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"