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Enormity Definition And Meaning
What's The Definition Of Enormity? [n] an act of extreme wickedness [n] the quality of extreme wickedness [n] the quality of being outrageous [n] (informal) 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" Synonyms \| Synonyms for Enormity: outrageousness Related Terms \| Find terms related to Enormity: abjectness \| abominableness \| affront \| ampleness \| amplitude \| aspersion \| atrociousness \| atrocity \| barbarity \| baseness \| beggarliness \| bigness \| boundlessness \| breach \| brickbat \| bulk \| contempt \| contemptibility \| contemptibleness \| contumely \| crime \| crime against humanity \| crumminess \| cut \| deadly sin \| debasement \| degradation \| delinquency \| depravity \| dereliction \| despicableness \| despite \| dump \| enormousness \| error \| evil \| execrableness \| expanse \| failure \| fault \| felony \| flagitiousness \| flagrancy \| flout \| flouting \| formidableness \| foulness \| fullness \| fulsomeness \| genocide \| gibe \| gigantism \| grandeur \| grandness \| graveness \| great scope \| greatness \| grossness \| guilty act \| heavy sin \| heinousness \| horribleness \| horridness \| horror \| hugeness \| humiliation \| immensity \| impropriety \| indignity \| indiscretion \| inexpiable sin \| infinity \| iniquity \| injury \| injustice \| insult \| intensity \| jeer \| jeering \| lapse \| largeness \| littleness \| lowness \| magnitude \| malefaction \| malfeasance \| malum \| massiveness \| meanness \| might \| mightiness \| minor wrong \| misdeed \| misdemeanor \| miserableness \| misfeasance \| mock \| mockery \| monstrosity \| monstrousness \| mortal sin \| muchness \| nefariousness \| nonfeasance \| obnoxiousness \| odiousness \| offense \| omission \| outrage \| outrageousness \| paltriness \| peccadillo \| peccancy \| pettiness \| plenitude \| pokiness \| poorness \| power \| prodigiousness \| put-down \| rankness \| savagery \| scabbiness \| scoff \| scrubbiness \| scruffiness \| scumminess \| scurrility \| scurviness \| seriousness \| shabbiness \| shoddiness \| sin \| sin of commission \| sin of omission \| sinful act \| slip \| smallness \| squalor \| strength \| stupendousness \| taunt \| tort \| transgression \| tremendousness \| trespass \| trip \| uncomplimentary remark \| unutterable sin \| vastness \| venial sin \| viciousness \| vileness \| weightiness \| wickedness \| wretchedness \| wrong See Also \| atrocity \| enormousness \| grandness \| greatness \| immenseness \| immensity \| indecency \| inhumanity \| nefariousness \| sizeableness \| vastness \| vileness \| wickedness Enormity In Webster's Dictionary \Enor"mity\, n.; pl. {Enormities}. [L. enormitas, fr. enormis enormous: cf. F. ['e]normit['e]. See {Enormous}.] 1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. The enormity of his learned acquisitions. --De Quincey. 2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. --South.

Enormity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Enormity?

[n] an act of extreme wickedness
[n] the quality of extreme wickedness
[n] the quality of being outrageous
[n] (informal) 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"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Enormity: outrageousness

Enormity In Webster's Dictionary

\E*nor"mi*ty\, n.; pl. {Enormities}. [L. enormitas, fr.
enormis enormous: cf. F. ['e]normit['e]. See {Enormous}.]
1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of
   being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.

         The enormity of his learned acquisitions. --De
                                               Quincey.

2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense
   against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime;
   flagitious villainy; an atrocity.

         These clamorous enormities which are grown too big
         and strong for law or shame.          --South.

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