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Immensities

Immensity \Im*men"si*ty\, n.; pl. Immensities. [L. immensitas: cf. F. immensit['e].] The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.

Lost in the wilds of vast immensity.
--Blackmore.

The immensity of the material system.
--I. Taylor.

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immensities

n. (plural of immensity English)

Usage examples of "immensities".

The island of scattered debris which marked the site of their devastated encampment was a dirt-colored mote Air-marooned in the clean, yellow-white immensities of the Star.

Dura felt small, vulnerable, isolated, dwarfed by the immensities of the root systems over their heads.

Wonderful the enigmatical immensities might be, but what did they have to offer to humanity except the certainty of disaster and doom?

Able to sense whatever emotion had been present, whatever those two immensities had been feeling!

These images then, this tiny little brainful that we gather from the immensities, are all brought in by our eyesight upside-down, and the brain corrects them again.

Could he say how he felt about their all being here tonight on this wild world running around a big sun which fell through a bigger space falling through yet vaster immensities of space, maybe toward and maybe away from Something?

Life in the end seemed a prank of such size you could only stand off at this end of the corridor to note its meaningless length and its quite unnecessary height, a mountain built to such ridiculous immensities you were dwarfed in its shadow and mocking of its pomp.