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enormities Definition


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enormity
noun enormities
    1. Outrageousness or wickedness.
      Thesaurus: injustice, iniquity, crime, evil, atrocity, horror, wickedness, heinousness, outrage, abomination, monstrosity, depravity, nefariousness.
    2. An outrageous or wicked act.
    3. Immenseness or vastness.
      Thesaurus: size, bulk, magnitude, immensity, enormousness; Antonym: triviality, unimportance.
Etymology: 15c: from Latin enormitas.

Info:
    ○ Strictly, enormity should not be used in a neutral sense (see sense 3) to mean ‘very great size or scale':
    ○ You will come across this usage quite often, because the alternative enormousness is awkward.


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