tömeges

Tömeges is a Hungarian adjective meaning related to a mass, crowd, or large scale. It is formed from the noun tömeg, meaning mass or crowd, with the suffix -es to create an adjective that describes characteristic or relation to the root. The term is used to indicate that something involves a large number of people or a large quantity of something, rather than a single instance.

The word appears across various registers, from formal discourse to media and everyday speech. It often conveys scale and collective nature. Common collocations include tömeges részvétel (mass participation), tömeges bevándorlás (mass immigration), or tömeges megbetegedés (mass illness outbreak). The adverbial form tömegesen means “en masse” or “in large numbers,” as in a sentence like a rendezvényen a nézők tömegesen érkeztek (the audience arrived in large numbers).

Semantic nuances and usage notes: tömeges emphasizes quantity and collectivity rather than individual or isolated occurrences. It can describe phenomena, processes, or actions that involve many participants or a large amount of material. In some contexts the term carries evaluative overtones, particularly in political or social debate, where it may contrast with individual or selective actions.

Related terms include tömeg (mass, crowd) as the base noun and sokaság (crowd, multitude) as a closely related concept. While tömeges shares its core idea with these words, its function is to attribute the characteristic of being mass-oriented to another noun or situation.