ENORMOUSNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enormousness mean? 

• ENORMOUSNESS (noun)
  The noun ENORMOUSNESS has 1 sense:

1. unusual largeness in size or extent or number

  Familiarity information: ENORMOUSNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENORMOUSNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusual largeness in size or extent or number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness

Hypernyms ("enormousness" is a kind of...):

bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enormousness"):

enormity (vastness of size or extent)

Derivation:

enormous (extraordinarily large in size or extent or amount or power or degree)

 Context examples 

He had not realized the enormousness of the task of putting a fellow-man out of the world.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

The enormousness of it appalled him.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)