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vastitude

[ vas-ti-tood, -tyood, vah-sti- ]

noun

  1. vastness; immensity:

    the vastitude of his love for all humankind.

  2. a vast expanse or space:

    the ocean vastitude.



vastitude

/ ˈvɑːstɪˌtjuːd /

noun

  1. the condition or quality of being vast
  2. a vast space, expanse, extent, etc
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of vastitude1

From the Latin word vastitūdō, dating back to 1535–45. See vast, -i-, -tude
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Example Sentences

There was a sense of deathlike passivity in the land, of overwhelming vastitude, of unconquerable loneliness.

Five years in narrow walls had unfitted me for the enormous declivity of the stairway, for the vastitude of the prison yard.

“Ah,” Walter Merritt Emory murmured, with a vastitude of confidence and assurance.

I was confronted with the vastitude of the universe at once, without the ingratiating introduction of the fairy tale.

Death-sealed the land lay in its silent vastitude, in its despairful desolation.

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