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English
Noun
vastidity (uncountable)
- Vastness; immensity.
c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :[…] a restraint,
Though all the world’s vastidity you had,
To a determined scope.
- 1812, William Tennant, Anster Fair, Edinburgh: George Goldie, 2nd edition, 1814, Canto 2, stanza 17, p. 43,
- in chaise or gig
- Th’ endoctrin’d sage professors lolling ride,
- Their heads with curl’d vastidity of wig
- Thatch’d round and round, and queerly beautify’d;
1900, George Cecil Ives, “A Recollection”, in Eros’ Throne, London: Swan Sonnenschein, page 12:The way of angels paved with light,
Over the sleeping sheen of sea,
Or lifted from each crested height,
The winds rolled from vastidity,
2010, Tom Bissell, chapter 7, in Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter, New York: Pantheon, page 108:That BioWare would have a large library was not surprising: Its games are noted for the vastidity of their worlds, all of which must be designed and populated and inhabited.