monumental
adjective
resembling a monument; massive or imposing.
monumentality
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a word derived from
monumental.
Example Sentences
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And yet there’s something admirable in their scrappy monumentality, particularly during this time of Hollywood largesse for franchises and austerity for just about everything else.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 24, 2025
The movie is as it should be, as the sense of scale, monumentality and sheer ambition in “The Brutalist” are largely the point.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024
This variability prevailed over specialization, particularly in cereal production, and is not explained by aspects such as geographical location, form of occupation or monumentality.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 16, 2023
The reinstated monumentality could now be used to celebrate a more diverse and democratic design world.
From New York Times ● Apr. 11, 2023
To him, only the heroic male nude possessed the physical monumentality necessary to express the awesome power of figures such as this mythical prophetess.
From "History of Art, Volume 1" by H.W. Janson
