noun, noun which may take the genitive case particle 'no'
Rare literary term meaning something so exceptional that nothing in the world compares to it. Used in classical or highly formal writing.
彼の功績は曠世のものと称えられた。
His achievements were praised as unparalleled.
Compound of 曠 (vast, empty, wide) and 世 (world, generation). The exact historical derivation is uncertain; the spelling is conventionally associated with the meaning 'unparalleled in the world'.