enormousness

[ ih-nawr-muhs-nis ]

/ ɪˈnɔr məs nɪs /

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noun

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

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Origin of enormousness

First recorded in 1795–1805; enormous + -ness

enormity, enormousness (see confusables note at enormity)

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.
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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.
The Last Shot|Frederick Palmer
But no merely physical ratio can convey the impression of enormousness that a great naval gun makes on the imagination.
The Western Front|Muirhead Bone

But Julius Cæsar attracted Shaw not less by his positive than by his negative enormousness.
George Bernard Shaw|Gilbert K. Chesterton
It had the cold enormousness of something very near and menacing.
Creatures of the Abyss|Murray Leinster
He had not realized the enormousness of the task of putting a fellow-man out of the world.
Love of Life|Jack London