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Vastness vs Capaciousness - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between vastness and capaciousness

is that vastness is the quality of being vast while capaciousness is the quality of being capacious.

vastness

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The quality of being vast.
  • * , chapter=5
    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
  • (countable) Something vast.

    • Synonyms

    * enormity * immensity

    capaciousness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being capacious.
  • * 1818 George Crabb - English Synonyms Explained, in Alphabetical Order
    • Capacity is the abstract of capax, receiving or apt to hold ; it is therefore applied to the contents of hollow bodies : capaciousness' is the abstract of capacious and is therefore applied to the plane surface comprehended within a given space. hence we speak of the ''capacity'' of a vessel; and the '''''capaciousness of a room.