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vastitude

[vas-ti-tood, -tyood, vah-sti-]
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noun
  1. vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind.
  2. a vast expanse or space: the ocean vastitude.
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Origin of vastitude

From the Latin word vastitūdō, dating back to 1535–45. See vast, -i-, -tude
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Examples from the Web for vastitude

Historical Examples

  • And I, for one, and for still other reasons, congratulate myself upon the vastitude of my good fortune.

    The Mutiny of the Elsinore

    Jack London

  • 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.

    Adventures in the Arts

    Marsden Hartley

British Dictionary definitions for vastitude

vastitude

noun rare
  1. the condition or quality of being vast
  2. a vast space, expanse, extent, etc
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