noun
pl. -·ties the state or quality of being immense; specif.,
- great size or limitless extent
- infinite space or being
Origin of immensity
French immensité from Classical Latin immensitas
noun
The definition of immensity is the state of being huge or endless.
An example of immensity is the Queen Mary 2 cruise ship which has approximately 76,000 tons of displacement.
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noun
pl. im·men·si·ties- The quality or state of being immense.
- Something that is immense, such as an immense expanse: “huddled against the white immensities of land and sky, one of those lonely New England farm houses that make the landscape lonelier” ( Edith Wharton )
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Origin
From Middle French immensité
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Sentence Examples
- Looking into the immensity of space, man also looks into the depths of godhead.
- First, in the spontaneous stage, where reflection is not yet developed, and art is imperfect, humanity has thought only of the immensity around it.
- He simply reports that immensity and eternity are inevitable negative ideas, and also that every endeavour to realize them in positive images must be an attempt to represent as quantity what is beyond quantity.
- At the end of his life he wrote of Amiel, "The man who has time to keep a private diary has never understood the immensity of the universe."
- Clarke appeals to the immensity of time and space as involving infinity in God.
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Words near immensity in the dictionary
- immensity
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