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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Immense \Im*mense"\, a. [L. immensus; pref. im- not + mensus, p.
     p. of metiri to measure: cf. F. immense. See {Measure}.]
     Immeasurable; unlimited. In commonest use: Very great; vast;
     huge. ``Immense the power'' --Pope. ``Immense and boundless
     ocean.'' --Daniel.
  
           O Goodness infinite! Goodness immense!   --Milton.
  
     Syn: Infinite; immeasurable; illimitable; unbounded;
          unlimited; interminable; vast; prodigious; enormous;
          monstrous. See {Enormous}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  immense
       adj : unusually great in size or amount or degree or especially
             extent or scope; "huge government spending"; "huge
             country estates"; "huge popular demand for higher
             education"; "a huge wave"; "the Los Angeles aqueduct
             winds like an immense snake along the base of the
             mountains"; "immense numbers of birds"; "at vast (or
             immense) expense"; "the vast reaches of outer space";
             "the vast accumulation of knowledge...which we call
             civilization"- W.R.Inge [syn: {huge}, {vast}, {Brobdingnagian}]

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