momentousness
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7.9
- noun
- /moʊˈmɛntəsnəs/
- Formal
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importancia
- The momentousness of the occasion—the first major contact between modernizing Europe and Asia—was not lost on Napoleon.
Was there a sense of that level of momentousness?
- Was there a sense of that level of momentousness?
Examples
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The momentousness of her decision to study abroad was evident to everyone around her.
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And indeed, as if in recognition of the momentousness of the occasion, it has been a slow week across the country.
Blog text (9) -
It's a different kind of suspense, without the special momentousness of live sports.
Academic text (1993) -
These very personal strands of your past and my past will remind us so viscerally of the unlikeliness and momentousness of Barack Obama's rise to the presidency.
Blog text (9) -
The ceremony is also called the "coronation," an expression that captures the momentousness of the ritual process of "putting ache on the head" (kariocha in Lucumi).
Academic text (1993) -
Though Rubin and Bois continue to insist on the momentousness of Les Demoiselles, such claims plainly lose some freight once the case is made that the painting did not, in fact, inaugurate Cubism.
Academic text (1994) -
We recognized the momentousness of the treaty as it changed the course of history.
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He spoke about the momentousness of the event, emphasizing its impact on the future.
Synonyms
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1.0
A quality that makes something have great value or effect
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3.8
How important something is or how much it matters
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3.5
The quality of being very important and admired for skill or achievements
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7.5
A quality that is easy to notice and more important than other things
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8.4
Importance of a fact or detail that needs attention
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4.9
Something that has a clear purpose or value
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6.7
The quality of being important and serious that makes people pay attention
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7.9
Having real importance or enough evidence to be believed
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7.7
A quality that makes something seem large and important for a long time
The great importance of something for a result or decision
A quality that makes something very important for life or success
The quality of being large, solid, or important
Antonyms
How Important
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word momentousness comes from moment, which once meant a movement or something that moves and is like the word move meaning 'to move'. So if something has momentousness it 'moves' people or events in a big way, which is why it means being very important.