enormousness

[ ih-nawr-muh s-nis ]

/ ɪˈnɔr məs nɪs /

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

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First recorded in 1795–1805; enormous + -ness

enormity enormousness (see usage note at enormity)

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He had not realized the enormousness of the task of putting a fellow-man out of the world.
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I'm as liberal as any of them—or that my liberality won't cost me anything—the enormousness of the data that we shall have.
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So letter-perfect was he in his lines that a layman might have scouted his realization of the enormousness of his responsibility.
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But no merely physical ratio can convey the impression of enormousness that a great naval gun makes on the imagination.
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They were silent alike before the enormousness and the enormity of this.
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