EXTREMENESS Synonyms: 60 Similar and Opposite Words

extremeness

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as in excessiveness

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Noun

The excessiveness of Ken Russell, Joe Coleman, Tasha Tudor, clowns, migraines, Priscilla Presley, and the Winchester Mystery House.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
This excessiveness can hinder critical knowledge building because of the sheer amount of information that can be accessed simultaneously at any time.

— Carmen Daniela Maier, Encyclopedia Britannica, 26 May 2026

Definition of excessiveness

Noun

The home’s dissolving interior boundary suits an artist who has spent her career questioning where humans fit within the vastness of space and time.

— Jane Horowitz, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2026
The oceans’ vastness can feel ominous, and though scientists have studied what lurks beneath, so much remains unknown.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of vastness

Noun

The script brilliantly lays that out to counteract some of the hugeness of her character.

— David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.

— Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026

Definition of hugeness

Noun

Cape Ann’s distinctive, undulant geography combined pungent industry and village intensity with Atlantic immensity of sea and sky.

— Emma Sarappo, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026
Romantic; something about the fearsome, post-human immensity of these spaces clearly inspired him.

— Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Aug. 2026

Definition of immensity

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