immensityformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Enormous
astronomical
astronomically
behemoth
bigly
by far and awayidiom
immeasurable
immeasurably
immense
immensity
inordinate
precipitous
prodigiously
stratospheric
stratospherically
super-colossal
supersized
thumping
walloping
yawning
yawningly

Examples of vastness

vastness
But the vastness of scale, the immensity and rapidity, and the universal consequences for all citizens (of germ warfare or nuclear destruction) are new.
The author does not advocate one particular approach, but rather attempts to demonstrate the vastness and intricacy of the field.
Only, in this instance, it is the vastness of future time and future history that is of crucial importance.
On the other hand, they have emphasised the vastness of the repertoire and the variety of means for linking them.
As we argued above, these include intentionality, partiality, vastness, and the attendant primacy of accessibility over possibility.
It is, in many senses, a levelling belief that there are people like us inhabiting planets like ours out in the vastness of deep space.
The members of this community have often only weak historical connections, and because of the sheer vastness of the community they cannot know each other.
Each blow or explosion is a revelation of its vastness.
The consciousness of the world's vastness, its measure, which 'is our freedom' (43) is lost and globablity is annihilated.
Against the vastness of the design space, it is clear that we cannot hope to exhaustively optimize.
The vastness of design space is a permanent constraint.
Given the vastness of their enterprise, these studies can only give us a rough idea of both the actual distribution and the semantics of lexical items.
Hardy contrasts the vastness and permanence of the landscape with man's insignificance and vulnerability.
Design is time pressured; the fact of vastness of the space and finite human life guarantees this.
Vastness often involves realizing patterns of causation, design, and beneficence that transcend the human scale, and such cognitive broadening could have fitness implications.
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