Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
VASTNESS
enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness
(noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
vastness (countable and uncountable, plural vastnesses)
(uncountable) The quality of being vast.
(countable) Something vast.
Synonyms
• enormity
• immensity
Source: Wiktionary
Vast"ness, n.
Definition: The quality or state of being vast.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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PRESENTATION
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal; “Cesarean sections are sometimes the result of abnormal presentations”
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