- enormousness
- noun see enormous
New Collegiate Dictionary. 2001.
enormousness
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Enormousness — E*nor mous*ness, n. The state of being enormous. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
enormousness — *enormity Analogous words: immenseness or immensity, hugeness, vastness (see corresponding adjectives at HUGE): tremendousness, prodigiousness, stupendousness, monstrousness (see corresponding adjectives at MONSTROUS) … New Dictionary of Synonyms
enormousness — enormity, enormousness 1. Both words are derived from Latin e norma meaning ‘out of the ordinary’, and both originally had meanings associated with wicked and criminal aspects of abnormality. Enormity (15c) is older than enormousness (17c), and… … Modern English usage
enormousness — enormous ► ADJECTIVE ▪ very large. DERIVATIVES enormously adverb enormousness noun … English terms dictionary
enormousness — /i nawr meuhs nis/, n. very great or abnormal size, bulk, degree, etc.; immensity; hugeness. [1795 1805; ENORMOUS + NESS] Usage. See enormity. * * * … Universalium
enormousness — noun Great size or magnitude. See Also: enormity, enormous … Wiktionary
enormousness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality of being enormous: hugeness, immenseness, immensity, prodigiousness, stu pendousness, tremendousness, vastness. See BIG … English dictionary for students
enormousness — e nor·mous·ness || mÉ™snɪs n. tremendousness, hugeness, massiveness … English contemporary dictionary
enormousness — enor·mous·ness … English syllables
enormousness — noun unusual largeness in size or extent or number • Syn: ↑grandness, ↑greatness, ↑immenseness, ↑immensity, ↑sizeableness, ↑vastness, ↑wideness • Derivationally related forms … Useful english dictionary
