Enormity

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  • noun. The quality of passing all moral bounds; excessive wickedness or outrageousness.
  • noun. A monstrous offense or evil; an outrage.
  • noun. Great size; immensity.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state or quality of being enormous, immoderate, or extreme; atrociousness; vastness: in a bad sense: as, the enormity of his offense.
  • noun. Enormousness; immensity: without derogatory implication.
  • noun. That which surpasses endurable limits, or is immoderate, extreme, or outrageous; a very grave offense against order, right, or decency; atrocious crime; an atrocity.
  • noun. Synonyms and Enormity, Enormousness. Enormousness is strictly limited to vastness in size; enormity, to vastness in atrocity, baseness, etc.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.
  • noun. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the quality of being outrageous
  • noun. an act of extreme wickedness
  • noun. the quality of extreme wickedness
  • noun. vastness of size or extent
  • Word Usage
    "He thanks many members of his campaign, along with his enormous army of volunteers, and he warns supporters about what he calls the enormity of the tasks at hand that now face the U.S."
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