Enormity
[ɪ'nɔːmɪtɪ] or [ɪ'nɔrməti]
Definition
(noun.) an act of extreme wickedness.
(noun.) the quality of extreme wickedness.
(noun.) 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'.
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Definition
(n.) The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.
(n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.
Editor: Omar
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Atrociousness, depravity, atrocity, flagitiousness, wickedness.[2]. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany.
Typist: Sanford
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Atrocity, perpetration, abomination, sin
ANT:Innocence, guiltlessness, clean_hands, clear_conscience
Editor: Vicky
Examples
- I came to you that morning in order to understand the full enormity of my offence. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- But in vain he cried out against the enormity of turtle and champagne that was fit for an archbishop. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Only, shy and retiring as your general manner was, I wondered what personal or facial enormity in me proved so magnetic to your usually averted eyes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- All I am concerned about is in arriving at a sense of the enormity of the impulse behind the social evil. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is high time, for the sake of humanity, that a stop were put to this enormity. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I wish my people to be impressed with the enormity of the crime, the determination to punish it, and the hopelessness of escape. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Topsy always made great capital of her own sins and enormities, evidently considering them as something peculiarly distinguishing. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- And I commit both those enormities, ma'am. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Now if it was Dick, now—here the old sinner cast up his eyes, as if unable to guess at Dick's enormities. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
Checker: Shelia