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Where does “immensity” come from?

Immensity comes from Middle French immensité, meaning vastness or boundlessness.

immensity (English): The state or characteristic of being immense; An...

Definitions

  1. The state or characteristic of being immense; An...

Ancestry of “immensity”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1EnglishimmenseHuge, gigantic, very large; Supremely good;...
2Middle Frenchimmense—
3Latinimmensusimmeasurable, boundless, endless, vast, immense
4Latinin-un-, non-, not; in, within, inside
5Latininin, at, on, upon, from; within, while in; into,...
6Old Latinenin
7Proto-Italicenin
8Proto-Indo-Europeanh₁énin
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