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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being huge; enormous bulk or largeness: as, the hugeness of a mountain, or of an elephant.

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  • noun the quality of being huge; immensity or enormity

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Examples

  • The Tea baggers can beat their chests and crow all they want about the "hugeness" of their movement's big victory, as Paul boasted last night, but all it portends for the party in November's midterm elections is Republican-on-Republican bloodletting.

    Andy Ostroy: To Know What Rand Paul's Victory Means, Look to Pennsylvania 12 Andy Ostroy 2010

  • The Tea baggers can beat their chests and crow all they want about the "hugeness" of their movement's big victory, as Paul boasted last night, but all it portends for the party in November's midterm elections is Republican-on-Republican bloodletting.

    Andy Ostroy: To Know What Rand Paul's Victory Means, Look to Pennsylvania 12 2010

  • As Edgar Kiser, of the University of Washington, and Danielle Kane, then of the University of Pennsylvania, say in a 2007 paper, that hugeness motivated Roman governments to turn to privatized tax collection in the first place.

    The New Tax Man From Ancient Rome The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • The sense of wonder of the hugeness of events will not appeal to your average non-SF-ian.

    What SF would you recommend to a non-reader? 2009

  • I desperately want my life to reflect the hugeness of our God.

    Getting Real Lauren Thomas 2009

  • Small measures, whistling in the dark, when it comes to the hugeness of disaster.

    Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island Luanne Rice 2011

  • They call to mind what historian Henry Adams said in the mid-1800s: '' There are grave doubts at the hugeness of the land and whether one government can comprehend the whole. ''

    Sunday Reading 2009

  • This is a guy who, for more than 20 years, has been a performer that has brushed hugeness, but never quite attained it.

    The Mormons Know Jack? « 2010

  • It took time for me to absorb the hugeness of what we had built.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Small measures, whistling in the dark, when it comes to the hugeness of disaster.

    Luanne Rice: No Japan is an Island Luanne Rice 2011

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