vastness
意味一覧 (2件)
広大さ
解説 Definition
広大さ（こうだいさ）とは、広く大きな空間または広がりの程度を表す名詞です。スケールが大きく、限界が見えないほどの規模を指します。
Vastness is the quality of being extremely large or wide. It is often used for space, the sea, deserts, or anything that feels very great in size and hard to fully take in.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
vastness は vast「広大な」に -ness が付いて、「広大さ」という性質を表す名詞になった語です。the vastness of space や the vastness of the ocean のように、端が見えず圧倒されるほど広い空間を思い浮かべると覚えやすいです。海、宇宙、砂漠、風景など、全体を目で追いきれないスケールの大きさを名詞で述べるときに使います。
Start with vast, meaning very wide and almost endless. Add -ness, as in kind to kindness, to make a noun for the quality. Vastness often fits images like space, the ocean, a desert, or a huge landscape.
例文
The vastness of the ocean never ceased to amaze him.
海の広大さは彼を常に驚かせた。
Standing on the mountain, she appreciated the vastness of the landscape.
山の上に立って、彼女は風景の広大さに感動した。
The vastness of space inspires wonder and curiosity.
宇宙の広大さは驚嘆と好奇心を刺激します。
莫大さ
(意味 2)解説 Definition
vastness は、数・量・費用・情報などが非常に大きいことを表す名詞です。日常会話よりやや書き言葉で、借金やデータ、仕事量、問題の規模など、全体を簡単に把握できない大きさに使います。
Vastness is a noun that describes an extremely large amount, size, or scale of something. It is often used in slightly formal or written English for things like debt, data, workload, or the size of a problem when it feels too big to fully grasp at once. The word can refer to physical space, but it is also common for abstract things such as cost, information, or responsibility.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
vastness は vast「広大な、莫大な」に抽象名詞語尾 -ness が付いた語です。空間なら the vastness of the ocean、数量なら the vastness of the data のように、ただ多いだけでなく見渡せないほど大きい感覚を表します。size より詩的で、immensity に近いですが、vastness は広がりの実感を強く残す語です。
You can remember vastness by splitting it into vast + -ness. Vast means very large, and -ness makes it a noun, so vastness means "the state of being very large." Think of a huge amount of data or money that feels too big to take in all at once.
例文
She was shocked by the vastness of the debt the company had accumulated.
彼女は、その会社が抱えていた負債の莫大さに衝撃を受けた。
The vastness of the data made the report difficult to complete in one day.
データの莫大さのせいで、その報告書を1日で仕上げるのは難しかった。
As we discussed the project, the vastness of the challenge became clear to everyone.
その計画について話し合ううちに、課題の莫大さが皆にはっきりしてきた。
vastness の語源・成り立ち Etymology
vastness は vast + -ness「性質・状態」で、vast はラテン語 vastus「広大な、荒れ果てた」にさかのぼります。もとは「空いていて果てしない」感じを含み、devastate と同根だと圧倒的な広がりの感触まで見えてきます。
Vastness is formed from vast and the noun suffix -ness. Vast comes from Latin vastus, meaning "empty," "huge," or "desolate." Because the old sense included a wide, empty expanse, vastness developed the meaning of great size or boundless extent; devastate comes from the same root.
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