Vastness
['væstnɪs]
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being vast.
Editor: Philip
Examples
- They seemed only to throw her own exceptionalness into becoming relief, and give a soaring vastness to her scheme of life. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- There was the raw, half-lighted, covered-in vastness of the dark place, boarded and hollow underfoot, with only desolation everywhere. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Vast though it seems to us, it is a mere speck of matter in the greater vastness of space. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Are men dazzled simply by the scale of his flounderings, by the mere vastness of his notoriety? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- With the telescope man has climbed into the limitless space of the heavens, and ascertained the infinite vastness of the universe. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
Typist: Suzy