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vastness

/ˈvæstnəs/

vastness noun: the quality of being vast.

Noun

vastness (countable and uncountable, plural vastnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being vast.
    • He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter V, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
  2. (countable) Something vast.
    • He had a feeling that he was lost in the vastness of a huge forest.1932, The Magnet - Bunter's Night Out

vastness meaning in Tamil and Kannada

vastness in Tamil

பெரும் பரப்பகற்சி, எல்லையற்ற பரப்பு

vastness in Kannada

ವೈಶಾಲ್ಯ, ವಿಸ್ತಾರ

Examples of vastness in a sentence

  • The vastness of space really boggles the mind.
  • Do you ever get the feeling that you are but an infinitesimal speck, swallowed by the vastness of the universe and beyond?
  • She looked dubiously up the steep path to the vastness of dark wood on either side.

All 12 example sentences with vastness

Synonyms of vastness

Forms of vastness

pluralvastnesses

Origin of vastness

From vast + -ness.

Questions about vastness

What does vastness mean?
Vastness means the quality of being vast.
What is vastness in Tamil?
Vastness in Tamil is பெரும் பரப்பகற்சி, எல்லையற்ற பரப்பு. See Vastness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is vastness?
Vastness is a noun.
How do you pronounce vastness?
Vastness is pronounced /ˈvæstnəs/.
What is the plural of vastness?
The plural of vastness is vastnesses.

Words near vastness in the dictionary

  1. vastities
  2. vastitude
  3. vastitudes
  4. vastity
  5. vastly
  6. vastness
  7. vastnesses
  8. vastoadductor
  9. vastrap
  10. vastraps
  11. vasts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: vastness (page history and authors); vastness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); vastness (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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