noun
Meaning 1
The quality of being vast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
vastness
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈvæstnəs/
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rhymes with -æstnəs
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CMU ARPABET: V AE1 S T N AH0 S Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
Something vast.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
Meaning 3
unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, wideness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: largeness, bigness
Narrower terms: enormity
History
Etymology
Etymology tree English vast 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 vastness From vast + -ness.
Across languages
Translations
16 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: необятност (neobjatnost) — quality of being vast
- Bulgarian: обширност (obširnost) — quality of being vast
- Finnish: valtavuus — quality of being vast
- French: immensité — quality of being vast
- Ido: imensega — quality of being vast
- Irish: ollmhéid — quality of being vast
- Italian: immensità — quality of being vast
- Italian: vastità — quality of being vast
- Latin: immānitās — quality of being vast
- Polish: bezkresność — quality of being vast
- Russian: обширность (obširnostʹ) — quality of being vast
- Russian: ширь (širʹ) — quality of being vast
- Russian: простор (prostor) — quality of being vast
- Spanish: vastedad — quality of being vast
- Polish: bezkres — something vast
- Spanish: vastedad — something vast