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tremendousness

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tre⋅men⋅dous

  [tri-men-duhs]
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–adjective
1. extraordinarily great in size, amount, or intensity: a tremendous ocean liner; tremendous talent.
2. extraordinary in excellence: a tremendous movie.
3. dreadful or awful, as in character or effect; exciting fear; frightening; terrifying.
Origin:
1625–35; < L tremendus dreadful, to be shaken by, equiv. to trem(ere) to shake, quake + -endus ger. suffix

Related forms:
tre⋅men⋅dous⋅ly, adverb
tre⋅men⋅dous⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. See huge.
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tre·men·dous   (trĭ-měn'dəs)   
adj.  

    1. Extremely large in amount, extent, or degree; enormous: a tremendous task. See Synonyms at enormous.

    2. Informal Marvelous; wonderful: had a tremendous time at the theater last night.

  2. Capable of making one tremble; terrible.


[From Latin tremendus, gerundive of tremere, to tremble.]
tre·men'dous·ly adv., tre·men'dous·ness n.
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Word Origin & History

tremendous 
1632, "awful, dreadful, terrible," from L. tremendus "fearful, terrible," lit. "to be trembled at," gerundive form of tremere "to tremble" (see tremble). Hyperbolic or intensive sense of "extraordinarily great or good, immense" is attested from 1812, paralleling semantic changes in terrific, terribly, awfully, etc.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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