Meanings
- uncountableGreat size or magnitude.
I stood close to heartsick mourners and worried that I would not sustain the enormousness of their spiritual weight.
2024 September 17, Lauren DePino, “I Sang at Hundreds of Funerals. This Is What I Learned About Grief.”, in The New York Times Magazine1 more example
"The Last Emperor," written by Mark Peploe "with" (as the credits say) Mr. Bertolucci, may have been inhibited by the enormousness of its subject, and even by the apparently enthusiastic support of China, which acted as host to Mr. Bertolucci, his cast and production crew.
1987 November 20, Vincent Canby, “Film: 'Last Emperor,' an Epic”, in The New York Times
Synonyms & antonyms
noununusual largeness in size or extent or number
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Arabic ضَخَامَة
- ضَخَامَة (ḍaḵāma)great size
German Riesigkeit
- Riesigkeitgreat size
Hebrew עֲנָקִיוּת
- עֲנָקִיוּתgreat size
Latvian milzīgums, gigantiskums
- milzīgumsgreat size
- gigantiskumsgreat size
Portuguese enormidade
- enormidadegreat size
Cite this entry
enormousness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enormousness
“enormousness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enormousness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “enormousness,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/enormousness.
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