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enormousness

[ ih-nawr-muh s-nis ]

/ ɪˈnɔr məs nɪs /

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noun

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

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RELATED WORDS

massiveness, largeness, vastness, bigness, enormity, immensity, hugeness, monstrousness

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Origin of enormousness

First recorded in 1795–1805; enormous + -ness

Can be confusedenormity enormousness (see usage note at enormity)

Usage note

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Examples from the Web for enormousness

Wishful Shrinking” chronicles how she became a Jenny Craig “poster girl for enormousness.
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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.
The Book of the Damned|Charles Fort
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
They were silent alike before the enormousness and the enormity of this.
The Magnificent Adventure|Emerson Hough