Immensity
noun
The state or condition of being very big, huge or massively vast.
He was stunned by the immensity of the desert.
Often appears as...
- immensity of space
- immensity of the ocean
noun
The attribute of something that is great in magnitude.
The immensity of his strength was unexpected.
Often appears as...
- immensity of impact
- immensity of strength
noun
The state or condition of being very big, huge or massively vast.
He was stunned by the immensity of the desert.
Often appears as...
- immensity of space
- immensity of the ocean
noun
The attribute of something that is great in magnitude.
The immensity of his strength was unexpected.
Often appears as...
- immensity of impact
- immensity of strength
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Pro Tip 1/3Expressive Impact
Use 'immensity' to emphasize the overwhelming scale or impact of something.
She could not grasp the immensity of the universe.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Spaces
'Immensity' often describes vast physical areas to highlight their extraordinary size.
The immensity of the ancient forest was breathtaking.
Pro Tip 3/3Abstract Concepts
Can also refer to non-physical concepts to stress their significant scale or seriousness.
The immensity of the crisis required immediate action.
Pro Tip 1/3Expressive Impact
Use 'immensity' to emphasize the overwhelming scale or impact of something.
She could not grasp the immensity of the universe.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Spaces
'Immensity' often describes vast physical areas to highlight their extraordinary size.
The immensity of the ancient forest was breathtaking.
Pro Tip 3/3Abstract Concepts
Can also refer to non-physical concepts to stress their significant scale or seriousness.
The immensity of the crisis required immediate action.
Pro Tip 1/3Expressive Impact
Use 'immensity' to emphasize the overwhelming scale or impact of something.
She could not grasp the immensity of the universe.
Pro Tip 2/3Physical Spaces
'Immensity' often describes vast physical areas to highlight their extraordinary size.
The immensity of the ancient forest was breathtaking.
Pro Tip 3/3Abstract Concepts
Can also refer to non-physical concepts to stress their significant scale or seriousness.
The immensity of the crisis required immediate action.
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A needle in countless...
Many of those stars have planets orbiting them. So how do we look for life in all that immensity? It's like searching for a needle in trillions of haystacks. We might want to focus our search on planets that we know can support life as we know it -- what we call habitable worlds. What do such planets look like?
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Killer whale society PIPE...
killer whales prey is bigger still the blue whale the largest animal ever to exist on the planet in ways both literal and figurative it is the largest challenge ever to face a predator and there's only one that there's to tackle their immensity on the face of it it
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Capturing the Year in an...
efforts that were happening around jakarta and it's just hard not to be moved by the kind of immensity of the people in that picture and you know they're kind of like hunger to get vaccinated it's really loud people are shouting uh the army are
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The Exhilarating Peace...
I feel like a small dot, a speck of dust, stardust, floating in the middle of the cosmos, in the middle of nothing, in the immensity of space. It's a fascinating sensation, because when I look up, down, left, right, in front, behind,
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To solve old problems,...
interrogate every new form of life we find, and any new biological attribute that we may find. We actually need to bring all of our intelligence to becoming stupid again -- clueless the immensity of the unknown.
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The path to ending...
which we, of course, simply have to address. I mean, can we build back better from this? I think before we can even start to answer that question, we just have to seek to understand the immensity of this moment.
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Discover Ancient Wonders...
you can on this use your imagination to imagine the immensity of the power that it took to thrust the ocean floor up onto the land I think I'll always be making work about the second point I have such a strong
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You owe it to yourself...
looking back at creation. And for the first time in my life, I just felt viscerally connected to the universe in all of its immensity. Time stopped, or it just kind of felt nonexistent,
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Why I photograph the...
And my work photographing death has not erased that. Death itself is rarely beautiful and the images I capture reflect that too. The grief I have seen, the immensity of the loss --
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4 Powerful Poems about...
Such quiet beauty here, in these, my soft-voiced, stiff-limbed people; such resolve masked by each placid face. There is immensity required in growing small,
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A needle in countless...
Many of those stars have planets orbiting them. So how do we look for life in all that immensity? It's like searching for a needle in trillions of haystacks. We might want to focus our search on planets that we know can support life as we know it -- what we call habitable worlds. What do such planets look like?
Video examples
Killer whale society PIPE...
killer whales prey is bigger still the blue whale the largest animal ever to exist on the planet in ways both literal and figurative it is the largest challenge ever to face a predator and there's only one that there's to tackle their immensity on the face of it it
Video examples
Capturing the Year in an...
efforts that were happening around jakarta and it's just hard not to be moved by the kind of immensity of the people in that picture and you know they're kind of like hunger to get vaccinated it's really loud people are shouting uh the army are
Video examples
The Exhilarating Peace...
I feel like a small dot, a speck of dust, stardust, floating in the middle of the cosmos, in the middle of nothing, in the immensity of space. It's a fascinating sensation, because when I look up, down, left, right, in front, behind,
Video examples
To solve old problems,...
interrogate every new form of life we find, and any new biological attribute that we may find. We actually need to bring all of our intelligence to becoming stupid again -- clueless the immensity of the unknown.
Video examples
The path to ending...
which we, of course, simply have to address. I mean, can we build back better from this? I think before we can even start to answer that question, we just have to seek to understand the immensity of this moment.
Video examples
Discover Ancient Wonders...
you can on this use your imagination to imagine the immensity of the power that it took to thrust the ocean floor up onto the land I think I'll always be making work about the second point I have such a strong
Video examples
You owe it to yourself...
looking back at creation. And for the first time in my life, I just felt viscerally connected to the universe in all of its immensity. Time stopped, or it just kind of felt nonexistent,
Video examples
Why I photograph the...
And my work photographing death has not erased that. Death itself is rarely beautiful and the images I capture reflect that too. The grief I have seen, the immensity of the loss --
Video examples
4 Powerful Poems about...
Such quiet beauty here, in these, my soft-voiced, stiff-limbed people; such resolve masked by each placid face. There is immensity required in growing small,
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Stephen Jay Gould
American Scientist
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
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H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
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Harold Brodkey
American Author
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
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Dayananda Saraswati
Indian Leader
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
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John Joly
Irish Scientist
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
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Norman Mailer
American Novelist
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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William Blake
English Poet
One thought fills immensity.
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Stephen Jay Gould
American Scientist
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
Quote examples
H. P. Lovecraft
American Novelist
Of our relation to all creation we can never know anything whatsoever. All is immensity and chaos. But, since all this knowledge of our limitations cannot possibly be of any value to us, it is better to ignore it in our daily conduct of life.
Quote examples
Harold Brodkey
American Author
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
Quote examples
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
French Writer
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
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Desmond Tutu
South African Leader
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.
Quote examples
Dayananda Saraswati
Indian Leader
Salvation is the state of emancipation from the endurance of pain and subjection to birth and death, and of the life of liberty and happiness in the immensity of God.
Quote examples
John Joly
Irish Scientist
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
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Norman Mailer
American Novelist
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
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Honore de Balzac
French Novelist
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
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William Blake
English Poet
One thought fills immensity.
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