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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.
3. Immenseness or vastness.
- Thesaurus: size, bulk, magnitude, immensity, enormousness; Antonym: triviality, unimportance.
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.
