vastness

[vast-nis]

noun

1. the fact or quality of being very great in extent, size, degree, amount, etc.; immensity or hugeness.

   Given the vastness of the country, improved infrastructure will have to precede any economic development.

   I was awestruck by the sheer vastness of her knowledge on the subject.

Other Word Forms

• supervastness noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of vastness¹

First recorded in 1600–10; vast ( def. ) + -ness ( def. )

Example Sentences

Really, I think, the vastness of today and what we are looking at as far as the future for all of us is just so twisted in turmoil.

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During the same days Penelope had spent aboard the Acorn, fishing and pondering the vastness of the sea, Edward Ashton too had been on the move, and he had covered a great deal of ground.

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The singer has previously written about the "vastness" of his grief and about how the death of his sons changed him.

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“Now that Ukraine has the ability to reach so deep into Russia and strike various parts of its infrastructure, that vastness has become a vulnerability.”

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Which raises other questions about the history of trade, an entire pool of humans previously unstudied and the vastness of the phenomena in “Ancient Desert Death Trap.”

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Related Words

• expanse