The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tremendous \Tre*men"dous\, a. [L. tremendus that is to be trembled at, fearful, fr. tremere to tremble. See Tremble.] Fitted to excite fear or terror; such as may astonish or terrify by its magnitude, force, or violence; terrible; dreadful; as, a tremendous wind; a tremendous shower; a tremendous shock or fall.
A tremendous mischief was a foot.
--Motley.
Syn: Terrible; dreadful; frightful; terrific; horrible; awful. [1913 Webster] -- Tre*men"dous*ly, adv. -- Tre*men"dous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or condition of being tremendous.
Usage examples of "tremendousness".
Nor is the preeminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.
Their warrings, their strifes, their internecine intrigues and connivings were inevitable because of the tremendousness and capability -- and the limitations -- of their minds.
Their warrings, their strifes, their internecine intrigues and connivings were inevitable because of the tremendousness and capability—and the limitations—of their minds.
A machine, oh, a machine— Ilis brain lifted up, up in his effort to grasp the tremendousness of the dull-metaled immensity of what was spread here under a summer sun beneath a sky as blue as a remote southern sea.