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VASTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Synonyms:
enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("vastness" is a kind of...):
bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vastness"):
enormity (vastness of size or extent)
Derivation:
vast (unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope)