What does immensity mean?
Definitions for immensity
ɪˈmɛn sɪ tiim·men·si·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, widenessnoun
unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Wiktionary
immensitynoun
The state or characteristic of being immense.
immensitynoun
An immense object.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Immensitynoun
Unbounded greatness; infinity.
Etymology: immensité, French.
By the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity. John Locke.
He that will consider the immensity of this fabrick, and the great variety that is to be found in this inconsiderable part of it which he has to do with, may think that in other mansions of it there may be other and different intelligent beings. John Locke.
All these illustrious worlds,
And millions which the glass can ne'er descry,
Lost in the wilds of vast immensity,
Are suns, are centers. Richard Blackmore, Creation.
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immensity
Immensity refers to the extremely large scale, size, or extent of something. It can also denote the quality of being immeasurable or boundless.
Webster Dictionary
Immensitynoun
the state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness
Etymology: [L. immensitas: cf. F. immensit.]
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of immensity in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of immensity in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1
Examples of immensity in a Sentence
And this that we call life, it is no more than the opening and closing of a eye a crevice in the unborn through which there shone a beam of light. Perhaps we are only here to say, live in the mercy of the enkindles immensity.
It is no longer possible for lyric poetry to express the immensity of our experience. Life has grown too cumbersome, too complicated. We have acquired values which are best expressed in prose.
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him. For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
When I consider the small span of my life absorbed in the eternity of all time, or the small part of space which I can touch or see engulfed by the infinite immensity of spaces that I know not and that know me not, I am frightened and astonished to see myself here instead of there... now instead of then.
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- immensitatCatalan, Valencian
- inmensidadSpanish
- ard-vooadysManx
- immensità, oceano, immanitàItalian
- milzīgums, gigantiskumsLatvian
- imensidadePortuguese
- необъятностьRussian
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