vastitude \ VAS-ti-tood, -tyood, VAH-sti- \ , noun; 1. vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind . 2. a vast expanse or space: the ocean vastitude : He glances around him in a circular direction to indicate the vastitude of the question, a vastitude which is to be inferred from the established fact of the ambient desert. -- Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, The Blue Flowers , 1965
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