immensity
pronunciation
How to pronounce immensity in British English:
UK [ɪˈmensəti]
How to pronounce immensity in American English:
US [ɪˈmɛnsɪti]
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- Noun:
- unusual largeness in size or extent
Word Origin
- immensity (n.)
- mid-15c., from Middle French immensité (14c.) or directly from Latin immensitatem (nominative immensitas) "immeasurableness," noun of quality from immensus (see immense).
Example
- 1. Let me but soar in that sky , in its lonely immensity .
- 2. And the center of immensity was my brain .
- 3. " The empty immensity of earth , sky , and water " ( joseph conrad )
- 4. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home , the earth .
- 5. The company has repeatedly persuaded skeptics that its immensity is a mere byproduct of its altruistic mission and that the algorithms it uses to organize the internet , while proprietary , are objective and benevolent .