humongosity
humongosity noun: the quality of being humongous.
Noun
humongosity (uncountable)
- The quality of being humongous.
- […] let’s take a look at the scenery tell me what do you think when you see all this pile-up of people these multitudes of man this humongosity of humanity this superabundance of homo sapiens […]1992, Miguel Méndez, “Ledras y latrillos/Bricks and Belles Ladders”, in Charles M. Tatum, editor, New Chicana/Chicano Writing, volume 2, Tucson, Ariz.: The University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, →ISSN...
- Out in tract-mansion country, where people go past at 50 miles an hour, the status cravers need the Lifestyle Style to do the same job. Just as the car created billboards where once there had been mere handbills, it created tract mansions where once a town house sufficed. Cars mandate humongosity....1990 May 15, Henry Allen, “The Monster Mansions of Outer Suburbia: Stately Subdivisions with a Little Land and a Lot of Lifestyle”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post...
- Synonyms:
- humongousness
Examples of humongosity in a sentence
- Ashton-Tate’s most recent contribution to humongosity is MultiMate 4.0, which comes on 23 (not a misprint) 5.25-inch floppies.1990 August, Henry F. Beechhold, “Latest Model of an Old-Time Word Processor”, in Home Office Computing, volume 8, number 8, New York...
- Armillaria, they say, should be recognized for its unique ecology and genetic diversity – not its humongosity.1993, “Scientists Question Blob Mentality”, in Forest Perspectives, volumes 3–5, Portland, Ore.: World Forestry Center, →ISSN, →OCLC, page...
- It was a way of connoting scads, heaps, plenitude and humongosity.1998 October 18, Michael T[yler] Kaufman, “A Billion, A Trillion, Whatever”, in The New York Times (section 4), New York, N.Y.: The New...
- Nothing’s as big as “War and Peace,” but here are some films notable for their humongosity.2003 June 20, Ted Mahar, “Creating a film spectacle with hordes of extras”, in The Oregonian, sunrise edition, volume 152, number 51,272...
Synonyms of humongosity
Origin of humongosity
From humong(ous) + -osity.
Questions about humongosity
- What does humongosity mean?
- Humongosity means the quality of being humongous.
- How do you use humongosity in a sentence?
- Ashton-Tate’s most recent contribution to humongosity is MultiMate 4.0, which comes on 23 (not a misprint) 5.25-inch floppies.
- What part of speech is humongosity?
- Humongosity is a noun.
Words near humongosity in the dictionary
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