immensity

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

IMMENS'ITY, noun Unlimited extension; an extent not to be measured; infinity. By the power we find in ourselves of repeating, as often as we will, any idea of space, we get the idea of immensity 1. Vastness in extent or bulk; greatness.
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