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immensity

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im·men·si·ty  (-mns-t)
n. pl. im·men·si·ties
1. The quality or state of being immense.
2. Something immense: "the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water" Joseph Conrad.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.immensity - unusual largeness in size or extent or number
immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, enormousness, grandness, greatness, wideness
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"
Translations

immensity [ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ] n [of size, difference] → inmensidad f [of problem] → enormidad f
immensity [ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ] n → immensité f
immensity [ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ] immense n → ungeheure Größe f, Unermesslichkeit f;
(of problems etc) → gewaltiges Ausmaß nt
immensity [ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ] n [of size, difference] → enormità; [of problem etc] → vastità


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There is an immensity of promenading, on crutches and off, with sticks and without, and a great deal of conversation, and liveliness, and pleasantry.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
They could not believe it indeed, for they could not take in the immensity of all they habitually enjoyed, and so could not conceive that what they were destroying was the very thing they lived by.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The water shone pacifically; the sky, without a speck, was a benign immensity of unstained light; the very mist on the Essex marshes was like a gauzy and radiant fabric, hung from the wooded rises inland, and draping the low shores in diaphanous folds.
Heart of Darkness by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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