immensity

Other forms of immensity

plural

immensities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about immensity

What does immensity mean?

immensity means "unusual largeness in size or extent or number".

How many syllables are in immensity?

immensity has 4 syllables and divides as im-men-si-ty under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for immensity?

Close synonyms include enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is immensity a common word?

immensity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.