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When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
Paracelsus

Meaning of "immensity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF IMMENSITY

immensity  [ɪˈmɛnsɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF IMMENSITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Immensity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES IMMENSITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of immensity in the English dictionary

The first definition of immensity in the dictionary is the state or quality of being immense; vastness; enormity. Other definition of immensity is enormous expanse, distance, or volume. Immensity is also a huge amount.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH IMMENSITY


aduncity
əˈdʌnsɪtɪ
capacity
kəˈpæsɪtɪ
city
ˈsɪtɪ
complexity
kəmˈplɛksɪtɪ
density
ˈdɛnsɪtɪ
diversity
daɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ
electricity
ɪlɛkˈtrɪsɪtɪ
ethnicity
ɛθˈnɪsɪtɪ
extensity
ɪkˈstɛnsɪtɪ
intensity
ɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
neutral-density
ˈnjuːtrəl ˈdensɪtɪ
overintensity
ˌəʊvərɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
propensity
prəˈpɛnsɪtɪ
protensity
prəʊˈtensɪtɪ
simplicity
sɪmˈplɪsɪtɪ
single-density
ˌsɪŋɡəlˈdɛnsɪtɪ
superintensity
ˌsuːpərɪnˈtɛnsɪtɪ
tensity
ˈtɛnsɪtɪ
university
ˌjuːnɪˈvɜːsɪtɪ
velocity
vɪˈlɒsɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE IMMENSITY

immedicableness
immedicably
Immelmann
Immelmann turn
immemorial
immemorially
immense
immensely
immenseness
immensities
immensurable
immerge
immergence
immerse
immersed
immerser
immersible
immersion
immersion course
immersion heater

WORDS THAT END LIKE IMMENSITY

bone density
charge density
critical density
current density
double density
earthquake intensity
electric flux density
flux density
high-density
luminous intensity
magnetic flux density
neutral density
optical density
packing density
radiant intensity
reflection density
relative density
single density
State university
transmission density
vapour density

Synonyms and antonyms of immensity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «IMMENSITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «immensity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of immensity

Translation of «immensity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF IMMENSITY

Find out the translation of immensity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of immensity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «immensity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

无边
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

inmensidad
570 millions of speakers

English

immensity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विशालता
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضخامة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грандиозность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

imensidão
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অসীমতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

immensité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ketelusan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Unermesslichkeit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

広大
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

광대
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Immensity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tính bao la
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எல்லையிலா
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रचंडपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

sınırsızlık
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

immensità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ogrom
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

грандіозність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

imensitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

αχανές
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

ontsaglikheid
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

oändlighet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

immensity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of immensity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «IMMENSITY»

The term «immensity» is regularly used and occupies the 104.740 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «IMMENSITY» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about immensity

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9 QUOTES WITH «IMMENSITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word immensity.
1
Honore de Balzac
Love may be or it may not, but where it is, it ought to reveal itself in its immensity.
2
Harold Brodkey
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
3
Todd Gitlin
Navigation is power of a limited sort - it enables us to manage the immensity of the media torrent.
4
Stephen Jay Gould
My own field of paleontology has strongly challenged the Darwinian premise that life's major transformations can be explained by adding up, through the immensity of geological time, the successive tiny changes produced generation after generation by natural selection.
5
John Joly
Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.
6
Norman Mailer
I don't think life is absurd. I think we are all here for a huge purpose. I think we shrink from the immensity of the purpose we are here for.
7
Paracelsus
When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven, as it were, and from it the work that he desires to create flows into him... For such is the immensity of man that he is greater than heaven and earth.
8
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
9
Desmond Tutu
God is not upset that Gandhi was not a Christian, because God is not a Christian! All of God's children and their different faiths help us to realize the immensity of God.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «IMMENSITY»

Discover the use of immensity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to immensity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Immensity . .
Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
George Gartling, 2012
2
Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in ...
As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion.Heartless Immensitytells the story of how ...
Anne Baker, 2006
3
Love's Immensity: Mystics on the Endless Life
A selection of luminous texts from early mystical fathers and mothers, whose words are considered inexhaustible, generative powers, unites in their common claim that Love is the most compelling name of God. $10,000 ad/promo.
‎2007
4
Restoring Colorado River Ecosystems: A Troubled Sense of ...
While the book is primarily about restoration of Colorado River ecosystems, it is also about uncertainty, conflict, competing values, and the nature, pace, and implications of environmental change.
Robert W. Adler, 2012
5
Life Everlasting and the Immensity of the Soul: A ...
Our purpose is to enlighten souls, to arouse conscience and responsibility.
Reginald Garrigou-Lagrange, 2013
6
The immensity of the here and now: a novel of 9.11
Quint, an American psychiatrist who lost his legs in the Vietnam War, receives a visit from his friend Shrop, an Austrian-Hungarian immigrant who lost his memory following the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attack in New York City.
Paul West, 2003
7
Love's Immensity: Or the Progressive Revelation of God ...
This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.
Bertha Carr-Harris, 2013
8
Much Ado about Nothing: Theories of Space and Vacuum from ...
Its merely possible existence is further emphasized by the manner in which De Ripa supported his claim that "the infinity of a whole possible vacuum or imaginary place is immensely exceeded by the real and present divine immensity .
Edward Grant, 1981
9
The Delirium of Immensity: Theory of the Fifth Dimension
This is a new release of the original 1925 edition.
Fortunato Hernandez, 2013
10
Leibniz’s Metaphysics of Time and Space
For Leibniz, this is tantamount to making God, or at least one of his properties, immensity, dependent upon the existence of space. It is to make God qua omnipresent dependent upon an independent absolute reality: “If the reality of space and ...
Michael Futch, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «IMMENSITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term immensity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Here's the scoop: China is now the world's biggest ice cream market …
"The pace of development, coupled with the immensity of the population, is having an increasing impact on the Chinese ice cream market,” she ... «Yahoo Finance UK, Jul 15»
2
It Still Matters | The Weekly Standard
As McPherson writes, “To illustrate the immensity of that figure, it equals 2.4 percent of the American population in 1860. If 2.4 percent of ... «The Weekly Standard, Jul 15»
3
3 Keys To Leading Through Change - Fortune
... but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.” Similarly, a manager's role is to keep their team focused on the end goal ... «Fortune, Jul 15»
4
Elk Hunting Tips: How to Pinpoint the Best Bull Habitat | Outdoor Life
So you've drawn an elk tag for a Western state renowned for its millions of acres of public wilderness. The immensity of the terrain can be overwhelming, ... «Outdoor Life Magazine, Jul 15»
5
No TV broadcast can ever replace the live experience
It's even harder to put into words the true immensity of Roger Federer's crosscourt backhand, and how radically he can cause a ball to deviate ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
6
Because Jewish lives matter, too
Just as Western ears and eyes could not cope with the unfolding horror of the Shoah, many today refuse to grasp the immensity of radical evil. «Religion News Service, Jul 15»
7
The ghost in the galaxy | Lifestyle | RDM
It fills you like a secular liturgy: immensity upon immensity, vastness upon vastness, space beyond space, worlds without end. As shooting stars ... «Rand Daily Mail, Jul 15»
8
Baku – 2015: 17 days that amazed the world - Azerbaijan State …
During these warm days of June each of us shared a feeling of pride, due to the immensity of the Games, the feeling of joy caused by the ... «AZERTAC News, Jul 15»
9
Magnetars, starquakes, and other amazing space oddities - The Week
The plaque featured a map of our sun's place within the immensity of the Milky Way, which it indicated in relation to 14 pulsars. Should any ... «The Week Magazine, Jul 15»
10
Reality TV stars shot at by IS - Perth Now
I knew it was dangerous, but I didn't quite fathom the immensity of it,” she says. “They were shooting, trying to push IS back out of the villages. «Perth Now, Jul 15»

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