Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being prodigious; enormousness; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being prodigious; the state of having qualities that excite wonder or astonishment; enormousness; vastness.
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- noun The state or condition of being
prodigious .
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Examples
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While painting and writing are different disciplines, it is astounding how much Orozco resembles both Dickens and Balzac in prodigiousness of output and in his role as an interpreter of national values.
Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008
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While painting and writing are different disciplines, it is astounding how much Orozco resembles both Dickens and Balzac in prodigiousness of output and in his role as an interpreter of national values.
Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008
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While painting and writing are different disciplines, it is astounding how much Orozco resembles both Dickens and Balzac in prodigiousness of output and in his role as an interpreter of national values.
Tragedy and triumph: the drama of Jose Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) 2008
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Research and Special Initiatives, talked of "prodigiousness" in his discussion of the potential of cloud computing.
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Powerfully built but lean and agile, the three-time AL MVP clouted home runs with Ruthian prodigiousness and played shortstop like an over-sized Mark Belanger.
Torrie Wilson Dating Alex Rodriguez? Former Wrestler Reportedly Dating Yankees Star (PHOTOS) 2011
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Because the vision of it was so fleeting, ere the match blew out, and because of the scar's very prodigiousness, I may possibly exaggerate, but I could have sworn that I could lay two fingers deep into the horrid cleft and that it was fully two fingers broad.
CHAPTER X 2010
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The last slow trailers in the rear of the exodus were just passing, and Nalasu, his bow and his eighty arrows clutched to him, Jerry at his heels, made his first step to follow, when the air above him was rent by a prodigiousness of sound.
CHAPTER XIX 2010
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For me, Mr. Micheaux's prodigiousness and genius remain as freshly astounding as his obscurity still largely enforced by U.S. society.
TV/Theatre/Film Marian 2008
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For me, Mr. Micheaux's prodigiousness and genius remain as freshly astounding as his obscurity still largely enforced by U.S. society.
Black Is Beautiful Marian 2008
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Prodigies are peculiar, not just for their gifts, but for the prodigiousness of their practice regimens.
Pistol Mark Kriegel 2007
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