"immensity" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ɪˈmɛn.sɪ.ti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-immensity.wav [Southern-England] Forms: immensities [plural]
Etymology: From Middle French immensité, equivalent to immense + -ity. Etymology templates: {{uder|en|frm|immensité}} Middle French immensité, {{suffix|en|immense|ity}} immense + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} immensity (countable and uncountable, plural immensities)
  1. (uncountable) The characteristic or state of being immense. Tags: uncountable Translations (characteristic or state being immense): огромност (ogromnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), immensitat [feminine] (Catalan), nezměrnost [feminine] (Czech), ohromnost [feminine] (Czech), vasteco (Esperanto), inmensidade [feminine] (Galician), अपरिमितता (aprimittā) [feminine] (Hindi), aibhse [feminine] (Irish), aibhseacht [feminine] (Irish), áibhle [feminine] (Irish), dearmháile [feminine, literary] (Irish), ollmhéid [feminine] (Irish), immensità [feminine] (Italian), oceano [masculine] (Italian), immanità [feminine] (Italian), immānitās [feminine] (Latin), milzīgums [masculine] (Latvian), gigantiskums [masculine] (Latvian), ard-vooadys [masculine] (Manx), imensidade [feminine] (Portuguese), inmensidad [feminine] (Spanish)
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  2. (countable) An immense object. Tags: countable
    Sense id: en-immensity-en-noun-hL6WbTcy
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: superimmensity, temple of immensity

Inflected forms

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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "ard-vooadys"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "lang_code": "pt",
      "sense": "characteristic or state being immense",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "imensidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "lang_code": "es",
      "sense": "characteristic or state being immense",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "inmensidad"
    }
  ],
  "word": "immensity"
}

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