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Hugeness

Huge \Huge\, a. [Compar. Huger; superl. Hugest.] [OE. huge, hoge, OF. ahuge, ahoge.] Very large; enormous; immense; excessive; -- used esp. of material bulk, but often of qualities, extent, etc.; as, a huge ox; a huge space; a huge difference. ``The huge confusion.''
--Chapman. ``A huge filly.''
--Jer. Taylor. -- Huge"ly, adv. -- Huge"ness, n.

Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea.
--Shak.

Syn: Enormous; gigantic; colossal; immense; prodigious; vast.

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hugeness

n. the quality of being huge; immensity

Usage examples of "hugeness".

To those who have not chanced specially to study the subject, it may possibly seem strange, that fishes not commonly exceeding four or five feet should be marshalled among WHALES--a word, which, in the popular sense, always conveys an idea of hugeness.

He made out the dim hugeness of the floater to his left, sliding slowly downward into the water: there was still enough air in it to give it some buoyancy, and the bizarre, puddinglike consistency of the sand-glutted river provided some slight resistance to its entry, but yet the floater was plainly sinking, and Valentine knew that when it went under entirely it would kick up a perilous backlash nearby.

It seemed impossible such hugeness could come to such precise and absolute a halt as these giants could when confronted with a fellow worker's begging.

Balor's likeness was that of a human, but gross and misformed, and one eye squinted away almost to nothing for the hugeness and horribleness of the other.

The amber fur that ermined her black, armored head and thorax, blazed glorious gold in the sun, it is true, but her stumplike wings and spindly legs were nigh powerless to move her swollen hugeness.

He had described what she had always yearned for in a planet-side posting: the hugeness, the variousness, the alweness of a breathing world.