immensity

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/ɪˈmɛn.sɪ.ti/

noun

The characteristic or state of being immense.

Similar
enormousnessgrandnessgreatnessimmensenesssizeablenessvastnesswideness
OriginMiddle French immensité →
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Meanings

nounimmensity (countable and uncountable, plural immensities)

plural immensities

  1. uncountableThe characteristic or state of being immense.

    Thou, whose exterior semblance doth belie / Thy soul's immensity; […]

    1807, William Wordsworth, “Ode [Intimations of Immortality]”, in Poems, in Two Volumes, volume II, London: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, […], →OCLC, page 153
  2. countableAn immense object.

Synonyms & antonyms

noununusual largeness in size or extent or number

Similar
enormousnessgrandnessgreatnessimmensenesssizeablenessvastnesswideness
Broader
largenessbigness
Also see
enormityenormousnessgrandnessgreatnessimmensenessvastnesswideness

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchimmensité
  2. Englishimmensity

From Middle French immensité, equivalent to immense + -ity.

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Translations

Bulgarian огромност
  • огромност (ogromnost)characteristic or state being immense
Catalan immensitat
  • immensitatcharacteristic or state being immense
Czech nezměrnost, ohromnost
  • nezměrnostcharacteristic or state being immense
  • ohromnostcharacteristic or state being immense
Esperanto vasteco
  • vastecocharacteristic or state being immense
Hindi अपरिमितता
  • अपरिमितता (aprimittā)characteristic or state being immense
Irish aibhse, aibhseacht
  • aibhsecharacteristic or state being immense
  • aibhseachtcharacteristic or state being immense
  • áibhlecharacteristic or state being immense
  • dearmháilecharacteristic or state being immense
  • ollmhéidcharacteristic or state being immense
Italian immensità, oceano
  • immensitàcharacteristic or state being immense
  • oceanocharacteristic or state being immense
  • immanitàcharacteristic or state being immense
Latin immānitās
  • immānitāscharacteristic or state being immense
Latvian milzīgums, gigantiskums
  • milzīgumscharacteristic or state being immense
  • gigantiskumscharacteristic or state being immense
Portuguese imensidade
  • imensidadecharacteristic or state being immense
Spanish inmensidad
  • inmensidadcharacteristic or state being immense
Cite this entry
APA

immensity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immensity

MLA

“immensity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immensity. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “immensity,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/immensity.

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