noun
definition
The state or characteristic of being immense.
definition
An immense object.
Examples of immensity in a Sentence
Looking into the immensity of space, man also looks into the depths of godhead.
The key to a healthy view of yourself is to grasp the immensity of Christ's love for you.
Even with good visibility, it can be hard to appreciate the immensity of Scapa diving.
It existed potentially in every child of man, and might be developed in each to its own immensity.
As the blind eye does not see the immensity of creation, so the blind spirit does not see the limitless power of God.
For the rest of the summer and the following winter the fort was dwarfed by the immensity of its solitude.
Few people realize the immensity of vacancy in which the dust of the material universe swims.
I become so overwhelmed by the immensity and beauty of it all that I stare for hours.
There are several ways of demonstrating the immensity of geological time.
That will never happen as we all know as the sheer immensity of the drop is too great.
L.S.D. - causes pleasure and a magnified appreciation of the awesome immensity of reality.
In this conception of nature are united the conceptions of law and order, of ever-changing life and interdependence, of immensity, individuality, and all-pervading subtlety, under which the universe is apprehended both by his intelligence and his imagination.
Mankind was supposed by Anaximander to have sprung from some other species of animals, probably aquatic. But as the measureless and endless had been the prime cause of the motion into separate existences and individual forms, so also, according to the just award of destiny, these forms would at an appointed season suffer the vengeance due to their earlier act of separation, and return into the vague immensity whence they had issued.
Clarke appeals to the immensity of time and space as involving infinity in God.
First, in the spontaneous stage, where reflection is not yet developed, and art is imperfect, humanity has thought only of the immensity around it.
He simply reports that immensity and eternity are inevitable negative ideas, and also that every endeavour to realize them in positive images must be an attempt to represent as quantity what is beyond quantity.
In order to establish his sixth proposition, Clarke contends that time and space, eternity and immensity, are not substances, but attributes - the attributes of a self-existent being.
We find ourselves, when we try, compelled to lose our positive ideas of finite spaces in the negative idea of Immensity or Boundlessness, and our positive ideas of finite times in the negative thought of Endlessness.
When we reflect on immensity and eternity, we find them negations of all that is imaginable; and that whether we try infinite addition or infinite subdivision.
At the end of his life he wrote of Amiel, "The man who has time to keep a private diary has never understood the immensity of the universe."
He therefore appealed to the Indian goddess Aditi or Immensity, a deity connected with a set of personal gods called Adityas.
Thus, in the first decade of the 20th century a great advance had been made in the way in which the whole problem was being viewed in America, though the very immensity of the problem of bringing the Federal power to bear on operations on so vast a scale, involving the limitation of private land speculation in important areas, still presented political difficulties of considerable magnitude.
He gave the words of greeting, and the first regiment roared "Hurrah!" so deafeningly, continuously, and joyfully that the men themselves were awed by their multitude and the immensity of the power they constituted.
As it progressed the Germans adopted many of the methods employed by the British in their colonial wars, and they learned to appreciate more accurately the immensity of the task which Lord Kitchener accomplished in overcoming the guerrilla warfare in the Boer republics.
Such are modes of quantity in space, and time and number, under which Locke reports that we find ourselves mentally impelled towards immensity, eternity and the innumerable - in a word, towards Infinity which seems to transcend quantity; then there is the complex thought of Substance, to which we find ourselves mysteriously impelled, when the simple phenomena of the senses come to be regarded as qualities of " something "; again there is the obscure idea of the identity of persons, notwithstanding their constant changes of state; and there is, above all, the inevitable tendency we somehow have to refund a change into what we call its " Cause," with the associated idea of active power.