vastness

noun

Definition of vastnessnext
as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large awed by the vastness of the prairie

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Recent Examples of vastness 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 Various events bring together factions of a fashion industry that is acutely aware of the vastness of its environmental footprint and how little is being done to mitigate it. — Roy Stephen Canivel, Footwear News, 25 Sep. 2026 Suspended against the luminous moon, the eagle becomes a timeless presence in the cold, breathless vastness of the alpine night. — New Atlas, 21 Sep. 2026 While science is often perceived as cold and overly logical, for Schroeder its practice stirs a humility and appreciation for the vastness of nature and the depth of time. — Brad Balukjian, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2026 Even Musk, despite his vow to take a chainsaw to the bureaucracy, seemed exhausted by the vastness of what his Department of Government Efficiency had taken on, and abandoned DOGE over a year earlier than planned. — Jennifer Pahlka, Foreign Affairs, 18 Aug. 2026 The book features portraits of puesteros between shots of domestic settings and local landscapes—the little that belongs to them and the vastness that does not. — Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026 One group got no special instructions, while the other was told to actively find moments of awe on their walk, seeking out novelty, tapping into wonder, and noticing the vastness of things, even in their own neighborhood—all subjective, of course. — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for vastness
  1. magnitude
  2. immensity
  3. hugeness
  4. enormity
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
  • 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
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
  • They may also be focused on the enormity of their own needs and unable to make space for yours.
    — R. Eric Thomas, Denver Post, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The enormity of it only landed later, during the first lineup.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 6 Oct. 2026
Definition of enormity

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“Vastness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/vastness. Accessed 20 Oct. 2026.

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