enormity
(noun)
noun
1. the quality of being outrageous
Similar word(s): outrageousness
Definition categories: attribute, indecency
2. vastness of size or extent
- in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size
- universities recognized the enormity of their task
Definition categories: attribute, enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness
3. the quality of extreme wickedness
Definition categories: attribute, nefariousness, ugliness, vileness, wickedness
4. an act of extreme wickedness
Definition categories: act, atrocity, inhumanity
Sentences with enormity as a noun:
- Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot's oppression.