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# vastness

«vastness» in Mova's school dictionary: **The quality of being extremely large, wide or huge** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (vastness, uncountable; vastnesses — rare)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The quality of being extremely large, wide or huge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#m1)

2) A very large, empty area, such as a desert, an ocean or space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Used in stories, poems and science to make the reader feel how big and empty something is: the vastness of space, of the ocean, of the desert. It often makes a person feel small or lonely. Phrases: "the vastness of space", "in the vastness of".

### examples

- The astronaut stared out at the vastness of space. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#x1)
- The vastness of the ocean made the little boat seem tiny. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#x2)
- We were amazed by the vastness of the desert. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#x3)
- In the vastness of the Australian outback, there was no house for miles. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#x4)
- The vastness of the library made it easy to get lost. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#x5)
- Scientists still cannot imagine the vastness of the universe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/#x6)

### note

Mostly uncountable: "the vastness of", not "a vastness". It comes from "vast" plus -ness. It describes size, not a number.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «vastness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/V/vastness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.