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Meanings of vastness in English

Portuguese
grandeza
Catalan
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Spanish
grandeza

Unusual largeness in size or extent or number.

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      Usage of vastness in English
      1
      These considerations set the vastness of the undertaking in a sufficient light.
      Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
      2
      No one had any idea of the vastness of the Pacific Ocean.
      A Book of Discovery / The History of the World's Exploration, Fr...
      3
      Because of its vastness, naval forces monitor the area with surveillance aircraft.
      Reuters
      4
      The very vastness of the horror took away from its personal appeal.
      The Poison Belt
      5
      Now they were alone; the jungle was vast with a new vastness.
      Son of Power
      6
      She wished now to conceal her joy in the vastness of Paris.
      The Red Lily — Volume 03
      7
      Our solar system is thus very isolated in the vastness of Infinitude.
      Astronomy for Amateurs
      8
      Somewhere in its tiny vastness were the friends he had to rescue.
      Beyond the Vanishing Point
      9
      Here from the railway you see at once the vastness of London.
      The Open Air
      10
      We get the problematic thrill, we feel the presence of the vastness.
      Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
      11
      But admiring the vastness of space was not Apollo 8's primary mission.
      Wired
      12
      One of the most distressing features of the dreams was their vastness.
      Halleck's New English Literature
      13
      Notwithstanding the vastness of the preparations, the expedition was a total failure.
      Ten Great Events in History
      14
      Their numbers merely emphasized the lustrous gray vastness of the Council Chamber.
      Gather, Darkness!
      15
      I begin to weary of the vastness, the endlessness of this place.
      Catching Fire
      16
      There was a dim light in that place, that region of vastness.
      Oberheim (Voices): A Chronicle of War
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      Spanish
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      Vastness through the time
      Vastness across language varieties
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