enormity
[noun]
Synonyms:
- wickedness, atrocity, depravity, monstrousness, outrageousness, vileness, villainy
- atrocity, abomination, crime, disgrace, evil, horror, monstrosity, outrage
- hugeness, greatness, immensity, magnitude, vastness

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Contrasted words: excusableness, remissibility, veniality, bearableness, tolerability, diminutiveness, minuteness, smallness, tininess, triviality, unimportance
Related Words: grossness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, depravity, flagrancy, bigness, greatness, massiveness, graveness, seriousness, weightiness

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

e‧nor‧mi‧ty AC /ɪˈnɔːməti, ɪˈnɔːmɪti $ -ɔːr-/ noun (plural enormities)
[Word Family: noun: enormity; adverb: enormously; adjective: enormous]

1. [singular] the great size, seriousness, or difficulty of a situation, problem, event etc
enormity of
Even now, the full enormity of his crimes has not been exposed.
the enormity of the task

2. [countable usually plural] formal a very evil and cruel act Synonym : atrocity

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

enormity
noun
ADJ. full, sheer
VERB + ENORMITY appreciate, grasp, realize It's difficult to grasp the sheer enormity of the tragedy.
bring home Her words brought home the enormity of what was happening.

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