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immense

im·mense

UK/ɪˈmɛns/ US/ˌɪˈmɛns/ fairly common

adjective

1.

unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially extent or scope

  • “huge government spending”
  • “huge country estates”
  • “huge popular demand for higher education”
  • “a huge wave”
  • “the Los Angeles aqueduct winds like an immense snake along the base of the mountains”
  • “immense numbers of birds”
  • “at vast (or immense) expense”
  • “the vast reaches of outer space”
  • “the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call civilization” W.R.Inge
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Origin

From Middle English immens, inmens, from Old French immense, from Latin immensus, from in- (“not”) + mensus (“measured”). Compare incommensurable.

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