Meaning & use
Sublimity
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The quality of being of such great excellence, beauty, or grandeur as to inspire awe.
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Visitors stood in silence, overwhelmed by the sublimity of the canyon at sunset.
The composer's final symphony achieves a rare sublimity.
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Central to 18th-century aesthetic philosophy, where 'the sublime' described experiences that combine awe with a hint of terror.
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ordinarinesstriviality
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