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vastness

[ vast-nis ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

the fact or quality of being very great in extent, size, degree, amount, etc.; immensity or hugeness:
Given the vastness of the country, improved infrastructure will have to precede any economic development.
I was awestruck by the sheer vastness of her knowledge on the subject.

First recorded in 1600–10; vast ( def ) + -ness ( def )

These sculptures all around the city make the vastness almost like a treasure hunt!

His artwork is heavily influenced by the vastness of the big, open sky.

I was either looking down at my notebook or out at the vastness of the site, which itself felt completely arbitrary.

There is a secret, complicated, and self-defeating vastness to it.

Where vastness once signaled bounty, it gives off now a whiff—and sometimes more than that—of excess, of self-indulgence.

Of the vastness of the households with which these grands seigneurs surrounded themselves, enough has already been said.

From without––from the vastness of sea and night––came a confused and distant wail, as of the lamentation of a multitude.

Our solar system is thus very isolated in the vastness of Infinitude.

Nor did the threat stay out in the vastness between the planets.

And the greater crowd which would be gathered there by the end of the first week would carry off the vastness of the preparations.

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