Meaning of humongousness | Babel Free

Definitions

The quality of being humongous.

informal, uncountable

Examples

“YAMAHA DT400C vs. HONDA XL350K2 / Dual-purpose humongousness”

“Crossing the Columbia campus you can’t avoid Amsterdam Avenue, the epitome of the city’s reputation as a melting pot. And almost lost there, despite its humongousness, is the Episcopal Cathedral of St. John the Divine.”

“The true genuine size of an anaconda […] is relative to three other factors: (1) whether or not the snake is alive; (2) how close you yourself are to it; and (3) how close both of you are, at that particular moment, to the Amazon heartland. […] And as the other two distances decrease—from you to the snake, from you to the Amazon—the snake varies inversely toward humongousness.”

““As I understand this,” said the rabbit, “a prime number is a number that can be divided only by itself and by one. This particular one is two raised to the 216,091st power minus one. Apparently it consists of 65,050 digits and to print it in its glorious humongousness would require you to fill two newspaper pages of about the size of this one.””

“The Bodeans began their own journey to humongousness in Milwaukee, Wis., fictional home of TV’s “Laverne and Shirley.””

“At thirteen, at Punkatasset, even with hair of my own, I was staggered by my fellow nudists. With four fully developed sets of bare parts to examine, I was cross-eyed with frustration: […] Just when I most needed a show of competence and general humongousness, would my dick retract like the mandibular head of a shrewd old tortoise?”

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