sublimity

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the quality of inspiring awe through exceptional beauty, grandeur, or nobility

   Visitors stood silently before the sublimity of the mountain landscape.

2. 2
   noun

   an instance or expression of sublime beauty or thought

   The symphony moves from quiet tenderness to overwhelming sublimity.

From Middle English sublimite, through French sublimite from Latin sublimitas ("loftiness, elevation"), based on sublimis ("high, exalted").

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