IMMENSITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does immensity mean? 

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

1. unusual largeness in size or extent or number

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• IMMENSITY (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 ("immensity" is a kind of...):

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

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

enormity (vastness of size or extent)

Derivation:

immense (unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope)

 Context examples 

Life was so strange and wonderful, filled with an immensity of problems, of dreams, and of heroic toils, and yet these stories dealt only with the commonplaces of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The wind was fair but fitful, and it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to raise that tiny boat out of the blue immensity.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I paused, examining and analysing all the minutiae of causation, as exemplified in the change from life to death, and death to life, until from the midst of this darkness a sudden light broke in upon me—a light so brilliant and wondrous, yet so simple, that while I became dizzy with the immensity of the prospect which it illustrated, I was surprised that among so many men of genius who had directed their inquiries towards the same science, that I alone should be reserved to discover so astonishing a secret.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I went up to my bedroom to change my wet clothes; and the vast extent of that old wainscoted apartment (which was over the archway leading to the Inn, I remember), and the sedate immensity of the four-post bedstead, and the indomitable gravity of the chests of drawers, all seemed to unite in sternly frowning on the fortunes of Traddles, or on any such daring youth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Came days of fog, when even Maud’s spirit drooped and there were no merry words upon her lips; days of calm, when we floated on the lonely immensity of sea, oppressed by its greatness and yet marvelling at the miracle of tiny life, for we still lived and struggled to live; days of sleet and wind and snow-squalls, when nothing could keep us warm; or days of drizzling rain, when we filled our water-breakers from the drip of the wet sail.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)