VASTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does vastness mean? 

• VASTNESS (noun)
  The noun VASTNESS has 1 sense:

1. unusual largeness in size or extent or number

  Familiarity information: VASTNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VASTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Unusual largeness in size or extent or number

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

enormousness; grandness; greatness; immenseness; immensity; sizeableness; vastness; wideness

Hypernyms ("vastness" is a kind of...):

bigness; largeness (the property of having a relatively great size)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "vastness"):

enormity (vastness of size or extent)

Derivation:

vast (unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope)

 Context examples 

Something, an incommunicable vastness of feeling, rose up into his eyes as a light and shone forth.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I seemed swinging in a mighty rhythm through orbit vastness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The months came and went, and back and forth they twisted through the uncharted vastness, where no men were and yet where men had been if the Lost Cabin were true.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

He cowered in the midst of the milky water, as though the vastness were pressing in upon him with overwhelming force, brutally crushing him with its complacent awfulness.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

He was appalled by the vastness of the beauty that rightfully belonged in it, and again his mind flashed and dared, and he demanded of himself why he could not chant that beauty in noble verse as the great poets did.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

The horizon is lost in a grey mist. All is vastness; the clouds are piled up like giant rocks, and there is a "brool" over the sea that sounds like some presage of doom.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It crushed them with the weight of unending vastness and unalterable decree.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

And I was alone, floating, apparently, in the midst of a grey primordial vastness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He saw no beauty in the sunshine sifting down through the green leaves, nor did the azure vault of the sky whisper as of old and hint of cosmic vastness and secrets trembling to disclosure.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

To that intelligence there could be no objective knowledge of a body. It knew no body. The very world was not. It knew only itself and the vastness and profundity of the quiet and the dark.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)