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hugeness|ˈhjuːdʒnɪs|
[f. huge a. + -ness.]
The quality or condition of being huge; extraordinary greatness of bulk; immensity, vastness.
c1380Sir Ferumb. 52 Of such anoþer herde ȝe nere, nowar þar ȝe han gone, Of Strengþe, of schap, of hugenys. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xiii. xxvi. (Bodl. MS.), Þe whale is icleped Cete for hougenes of his bodie. 1579E. K. Spenser's Sheph. Cal. Apr. (Emblem), The hugenesse of his imagination. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 649 Yet is the oake accounted the King of the forrest..in respect of his largenesse and hudgenesse. 1753Hogarth Anal. Beauty vi. 29 The hugeness of its few distinct parts strikes the eye with uncommon grandeur. 1818Keats Endym. iii. 346 A dread waterspout had rear'd aloft Its hungry hugeness. |