The quality of being extremely large, vast, or impossible to measure; something that seems endless or infinite.
From Latin 'immensitas' (immense + -ity), derived from 'immensus' meaning 'unmeasured' or 'boundless.' The root 'mensus' comes from 'metiri' meaning 'to measure,' so immensity literally means 'something that cannot be measured.'
The immensity of space blew people's minds in the 1600s—before telescopes, nobody realized the universe was so unimaginably huge that our brains struggle to actually comprehend numbers like billions of light-years!
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