enormousness

[ih-nawr-muh s-nis]

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noun

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

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. 2018

Related Words for enormousness

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

Examples from the Web for enormousness

Contemporary Examples of enormousness

Wishful Shrinking” chronicles how she became a Jenny Craig “poster girl for enormousness.
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Lizzie Crocker, Malcolm Jones
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Historical Examples of enormousness

He had not realized the enormousness of the task of putting a fellow-man out of the world.
Love of Life
Jack London
But what is most astonishing about the Tribute is its enormousness.
Beauties and Antiquities of Ireland
T. O. Russell
We speak of the enormity of an offence but of the enormousness of a crowd.
Word Study and English Grammar
Frederick W. Hamilton
They were silent alike before the enormousness and the enormity of this.
The Magnificent Adventure
Emerson Hough
And I thought, too, of the enormousness of their stationery bills.
A Maid of the Kentucky Hills
Edwin Carlile Litsey