enormousness

[ ih-nawr-muhs-nis ]

noun

1. very great or abnormal size, bulk, degree, etc.; hugeness; immensity.

Confusables Note

See enormity.

Word History and Origins

Origin of enormousness¹

First recorded in 1795–1805; enormous + -ness

Example Sentences

I am not undermining or minimizing the enormousness of that challenge, but once you have the data under control of community trust, which are neutral bodies, I think things would start somehow.

From MIT Technology Review

Wishful Shrinking” chronicles how she became a Jenny Craig “poster girl for enormousness.

From The Daily Beast

So letter-perfect was he in his lines that a layman might have scouted his realization of the enormousness of his responsibility.

From Project Gutenberg

But no merely physical ratio can convey the impression of enormousness that a great naval gun makes on the imagination.

From Project Gutenberg

But Julius Cæsar attracted Shaw not less by his positive than by his negative enormousness.

From Project Gutenberg

It had the cold enormousness of something very near and menacing.

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg