Dictionary Definition
enormity
Noun
1 the quality of being outrageous [syn: outrageousness]
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"
3 the quality of extreme wickedness
4 an act of extreme wickedness
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.
- An act of extreme evil or wickedness.
- Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.
Usage notes
- The spreading use of enormity as a synonym of enormousness has been hotly disputed, but appears to become more and more accepted.
Related terms
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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