Meaning

(rare, uncountable) The state or condition of being tremendous..

Definitions by Sense

1. (rare, uncountable) The state or condition of being tremendous.
2. (rare, countable) Someone or something that is tremendous.

Example Sentences

He talks of enlarging the stage after Easter, probably to make room for Mrs. Honey’s foot, which is remarkable for its tremendosity.

The lady librarian waxing wroth at our complimentary notice of her smithy, blew the bellows with such tremendosity, in the effervescence of her indignation, as to scatter over the neighbouring roofs, the 24 first pages of the ‘Mysteries of London,’ and Jack and the Bean-stalk.’

We arrived punctually, and as we walked down the thoroughfare, so majestically lined with eating-houses, public-houses, and a boot shop, that leads to the sea front, I was amazed at the tremendosity (I can find no other word, it is of my own manufacture, and I dedicate it to the public for ever) of the crowds that turned out to welcome us.

He looked at her for a moment. “You are prodigious,” he said, richly. “I see that you understand me,” and she paused for a moment of introspection. “It is what, in the long run, I feel to be my actuating ideal—I mean, of course, our sympathy.” The tremendosity of the implication, at all events, arrested his attention. “I,” her interlocutor was thoughtfully considering, “agree, and—there you are.” “It is what,” she paused for a moment, with a pleasant pointedness of manner, “after all, means most to me. He is of sympathy, a tremendosity, a richness, a vagueness, that quite satisfies me.”

“But that is just what does not happen in the case of Mr. James’s people. They are merged in the background so that you never can get behind them, and fairly feel and see them all round. Europe doesn’t detach them; nothing does. ‘There they are,’ as he keeps making his people say in all his late books, when they are not calling one another dear lady, and dear man, and prodigious and magnificent, and of a vagueness or a richness, or a sympathy, or an opacity. No, he is of a tremendosity, but he worries me to death; he kills me; he really gives me a headache. He fascinates me, but I have no patience with him.”

Because in the eye of a Property Society these are not human beings, but are merely pawns, like Gretchen, who exist only for the purpose of allowing a real human being like Faust to work out what is pompously called the tremendous “problems of life” that present themselves to the bourgeois mind. This overpowering sense of the “tremendosity” of human “problems” is one of the manifestations of that hypocrisy which has ever characterized the domineering class. These problems are nothing more nor less than how to keep down the subject class and make it believe itself incompetent to assume control and make itself happy. Overwhelmed by the “tremendosity” of this problem, the bourgeois mind seeks to solve it by formulas more difficult than the problem itself.

Then the Greeks were nearer akin to rustic manners of the present day. There is no indirection in their speech — I don’t know Euripides more than very slightly. I think I notice the recurrence of favorite collocations and rhythms, but don’t challenge me — along with great magic power a suggestion of formula. All said there is a lot of tremendosity in it.

They would have seen as he saw, the tremendosity, the marvel, the hugeness of the Big Bang, rolling and echoing through all England.

Word Forms

• tremendosities

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