HUGENESS Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

hugeness

noun

Definition of hugeness

as in magnitude

the quality or state of being very large you can only appreciate the hugeness of the dome when you see how tiny the people standing under it look

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Recent Examples of hugeness 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 Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success. — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 23 Sep. 2025 Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem. — Noel Murray, Vulture, 13 Aug. 2025

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Noun

The statistical side then won the engineering war, but the five-orders-of-magnitude bill served as a reminder.

— Charles Yeomans, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
And Republican political operatives and independent election observers CNBC spoke with say the money hasn't had the effects its magnitude would be expected to in voter sentiment.

— Luke Fountain, CNBC, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of magnitude

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

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

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