tremendousness
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Whatever the thing could have been, my impression is of tremendousness, or of bulk many times that of all meteorites in all museums combined: also of relative slowness, or of long warning of approach.
From The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort
How strange it was, and how awful, the tremendousness of life, the nearness of death, the absolute relentlessness of suffering, and all the prattle.
From The Benefactress by Elizabeth
He stood by while they shook hands with Poppy, who turned her head away as if to hide some scar, and when she had gone across to Marion tried to get in his designed tremendousness.
From The Judge by Rebecca West
Nor is the preeminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.
From Moby Dick: or, the White Whale by Herman Melville
She doubted if she could have felt this tremendousness of love in England.
From There was a King in Egypt by Norma Lorimer