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 Fort, Charles

Nor is the pre-eminent tremendousness of the great Sperm Whale anywhere more feelingly comprehended, than on board of those prows which stem him.

From Moby Dick, or, the whale by Melville, Herman

Again, the tremendousness of this high isolation swept over her.

From Black Oxen by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Would not determination rise in him with new tremendousness, and would not hope, after its rebirth in despair, soar to undreamed of heights?

From The Glory of the Conquered The Story of a Great Love by Glaspell, Susan

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