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immensity

[ ih-men-si-tee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

immensity

/ ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ /

First recorded in 1400–50; late Middle English word from Latin word immēnsitās. See immense, -ity

The 1,252-square-mile southwest Texas expanse was stupefying in its beauty and immensity.

The immensity of choice protected by the law of our land continues to evolve with us.

Thus wanderingMy thought in this immensity is drowned;And sweet to me is shipwreck on this sea.

Everything relating to human affairs seemed dwarfed in such immensity.

Our people, separated from yours by the immensity of the seas and vast territories, could not harm your nation.

Such immensity is of night, and, added to solitude, weighed heavily on Gilliatt's mind.

One stands before it awed, stupefied by its immensity, its age, its strange manner of growing.

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