vastitude
\ VAS-ti-tood, -tyood, VAH-sti- \ , noun;
1.vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind .
2.a vast expanse or space: the ocean vastitude .
Quotes:
He glances around him in a circular direction to indicate the vastitude of the question, a vastitude which is to be inferred from the established fact of the ambient desert.
-- Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, "The Blue Flowers," 1965
The setting was an outcropping of stones amid a dun, dust-scoured vastitude , somewhere in the interior of China.
-- Neal Stephenson, "The Diamond Age," 1995
Origin:
Vastitude is derived from the Latin word vastitūdō , a combination of vast , meaning "of great size" and the suffix -tude , which appears in abstract nouns like latitude . The connective vowel -i- is commonly used in compounds of Latin or Greek words.
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