enormity
noun
[ ɪˈnɔːmɪti ]
• the great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong.
• "a thorough search disclosed the full enormity of the crime"
• a grave crime or sin.
• "the enormities of war"
Similar:
wickedness,
evilness,
vileness,
baseness,
blackness,
depravity,
outrageousness,
monstrousness,
hideousness,
dreadfulness,
heinousness,
awfulness,
nastiness,
horror,
atrocity,
villainy,
cruelty,
inhumanity,
mercilessness,
brutality,
brutalism,
bestiality,
barbarism,
barbarousness,
savagery,
viciousness,
nefariousness,
outrage,
evil,
barbarity,
act of brutality,
act of savagery,
act of wickedness,
act of cruelty,
abomination,
monstrosity,
obscenity,
iniquity,
violation,
crime,
transgression,
wrong,
wrongdoing,
offence,
injury,
affront,
disgrace,
scandal,
injustice,
abuse,
malfeasance,
tort,
Origin:
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin enormitas, from enormis, from e- (variant of ex- ) ‘out of’ + norma ‘pattern, standard’. The word originally meant ‘deviation from legal or moral rectitude’ and ‘transgression’. Current senses have been influenced by enormous.
