1[countableC, uncountableU]BIG used to emphasize the great size of something, especially something that cannot be measured 浩瀚无际
immensity of
the immensity of outer space
外太空的浩瀚无垠
2BIG[uncountableU] used to emphasize the great size and seriousness of something such as a problem you have to deal with or a job you have to do 巨大〔用于强调规模或严重程度〕
immensity of
the immensity of the problem
问题之严重
Examples from the Corpus
immensity• But I was looking at immensity.• His photographs seem to do justice to the epicimmensity of the subject, but also its symbolicimplications.• Little else had been done to harmonize or soften the concrete's greyimmensity.• The town was stunned by the immensity of its loss.• He was struck for the first time by the immensity of the secret that swirled around him.• Her meanings all but drowned in the immensity of it all.• We were quiet awhile with each other in the immensity.• But with that knowledge there came again an achingawareness of the immensity of Time.• The immensity of the budgetcrisis was a surprise to everyone.