vastness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being vast. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Something vast. countable
    — He had a feeling that he was lost in the vastness of a huge forest.

词形变化

vastnesses plural

词汇关系

近义词
enormity immensity

词源

Etymology tree
English vast
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English vastness
From vast + -ness.
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