noun
Meaning 1
Great size or magnitude.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
enormousness
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noun
Meaning 2
unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: largeness, bigness
Narrower terms: enormity
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English enormous Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English enormousness From enormous + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
6 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: ضَخَامَة (ḍaḵāma) — great size
- German: Riesigkeit — great size
- Hebrew: עֲנָקִיוּת — great size
- Latvian: milzīgums — great size
- Latvian: gigantiskums — great size
- Portuguese: enormidade — great size