#WordOfTheDay for Thursday, April 10, 2014 vastitude \ VAS-ti-tood, -tyood, VAH-sti- \ , noun; 1. vastness; immensity: the vastitude of his love for all humankind. 2. a vast expanse or space: the ocean vastitude. He glances around him in a circular direction to indicate the vastitude of the question, a vastitude which is to be inferred from the established fact of the ambient desert. -- Raymond Queneau, translated by Barbara Wright, The Blue Flowers, 1965 The setting was an outcropping of stones amid a dun, dust-scoured vastitude , somewhere in the interior of China. -- Neal Stephenson, The Diamond Age, 1995 Vastitude is derived from the Latin word vastitūdō, a combination of vast, meaning of great size and the suffix -tude, which appears in abstract nouns like latitude. The connective vowel -i- is commonly used in compounds of Latin or Greek words.
Posted on: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 12:25:28 +0000
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