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noun

Vastitude n.

Vastness; immense extent. (R.)

Destruction; vastation. (Obs.)

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Etymology of 'Vastitude'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Vastitude" Quotes from Famous Books

... time so vast that Science knows no sign by which their magnitudes might be indicated,—and still flee onward, onward, downward, upward,—always, always,—never could that Self of me reach nearer to any verge, never speed farther from any centre. For, in that Silence, all vastitude and height and depth and time and direction are swallowed up: relation therein could have no meaning but for the speck of my fleeting consciousness,—atom of terror pulsating alone through atomless, soundless, ...

— The Romance of the Milky Way - And Other Studies & Stories • Lafcadio Hearn

... the glorious triumphant strength of youth. But if at the same period he had attempted a novel, the world undoubtedly would have found out how very young he was. He would have been incapable of slicing a cross-section clean through the vastitude of human life, of seeing it whole, and of representing the appalling intricacy of its interrelations. On the other hand, most of the mature men who have been wise enough to do the latter, have shown themselves incapable of focussing their minds ...

— A Manual of the Art of Fiction • Clayton Hamilton