Meaning of humongosity | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being humongous.

informal, uncountable

Examples

“[…] let’s take a look at the scenery tell me what do you think when you see all this pile-up of people these multitudes of man this humongosity of humanity this superabundance of homo sapiens […]”

“Out in tract-mansion country, where people go past at 50 miles an hour, the status cravers need the Lifestyle Style to do the same job. Just as the car created billboards where once there had been mere handbills, it created tract mansions where once a town house sufficed. Cars mandate humongosity. Theoretically, builders could decorate tract mansions with electric signs blinking “Stately Home.” The postmodernists would love the self-referential irony, but irony is not what tract mansions are about. Big is what they are about.”

“There was a time when programmers prided themselves on cramming lots of features into the smallest possible space. Ha! If you’ve bought any of the big applications lately (word processing, data management, spreadsheet), you probably think that the days of parsimonious programming are done. Ashton-Tate’s most recent contribution to humongosity is MultiMate 4.0, which comes on 23 (not a misprint) 5.25-inch floppies.”

“Scientists studying Armillaria say in the quest for bigger, older, and heavier, people are missing the point. Armillaria, they say, should be recognized for its unique ecology and genetic diversity – not its humongosity.”

“THE concept of a trillion has shifted in recent weeks from a fuzzy, imprecise and somewhat abstract notion into a hard-edged number like, say, 47 or 254 or 7,453. […] Before this recent shift in consciousness, a trillion, at least in everyday usage, was an expression more akin to zillion, gazillion and jillion. It was a way of connoting scads, heaps, plenitude and humongosity.”

“Nothing’s as big as “War and Peace,” but here are some films notable for their humongosity.”

“I’d have a nice waist if it wasn’t for an extra roll or two, but my hips are enormous. Sometimes I wear loose shirts to conceal the matching humongosity of my boobs, but those shirts hang straight down in front, hiding my waist.”

“He straightened, and it might have been my imagination, but he seemed to get even taller. He lifted an arm, stretching it high, and without looking reached for a spot on the wall over. His fingers brushed the stone and he frowned. He peered upward, and I was right—he could get taller, because suddenly his eyes were on the level where his hand had touched the wall. […] “Lad,” Lachlan rasped, “I think what he’s trying to say is he can't hand over the horn because he hasn’t got it.” He gazed up at Govannon, who’d shrunk to his original humongosity. “Isn’t that so?””

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