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as in badness
the state or quality of being utterly evil
the enormity of the crimes committed by the Nazis
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as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the enormity of the canyon can only be grasped by taking a trip through its entire length
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Recent Examples of enormity
The enormity of what happened in so short a span of time beggars belief.
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Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Imagine a scenario where banks can forecast market shifts in a matter of milliseconds, identify risk to a specific location and instantly rebalance portfolios—tasks that consume enormities of processing power and precious time today.
—Roman Reznikov, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
While the enormity of the cast means some of the characters inevitably go underdeveloped, performances are compelling across the board.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
The sheer enormity of all this bad news, day after day, is disheartening.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 31 July 2025
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Hussein Agha, New Yorker, 22 Aug. 2025
Imagine a scenario where banks can forecast market shifts in a matter of milliseconds, identify risk to a specific location and instantly rebalance portfolios—tasks that consume enormities of processing power and precious time today.
—Roman Reznikov, Forbes.com, 6 Aug. 2025
While the enormity of the cast means some of the characters inevitably go underdeveloped, performances are compelling across the board.
—Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 5 Aug. 2025
The sheer enormity of all this bad news, day after day, is disheartening.
—Michael Schneider, Variety, 31 July 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enormity
Noun
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The magnitude of loss can render even the most eloquent voices speechless.—
Yangyang Cheng,
NPR,
4 Oct. 2025
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Remember, magnitude is the scale used by astronomers to chart the apparent brightness of an object in the night sky.—
Anthony Wood,
Space.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Between every frame a disjunctive gap intrudes, subdividing the whole back into its parts, and thereby confronting the viewer with the plethora of copy culture, a barely manageable immensity of data.—
Jan Tumlir,
Artforum,
1 Sep. 2025
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To appreciate the full moral weight and dramatic immensity of these moments means grasping the significance of the moments leading up to them—and the ones that come afterward.—
Justin Chang,
New Yorker,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This led to the investigation of Gein’s farm that unearthed his atrocities, including Worden’s body being decapitated, flayed, and hung in his shed.—
Brian Tallerico,
Vulture,
4 Oct. 2025
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Did Ed Gein have a girlfriend, Adeline Watkins, who introduced him to World War II atrocities?—
JR Radcliffe,
jsonline.com,
3 Oct. 2025
Noun
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The country spans 11 different time zones, making its vastness its biggest weakness in defending against Ukrainian drone attacks.—
David Kirichenko,
Forbes.com,
17 Sep. 2025
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Our Universe may be full of stars, galaxies, and a cosmic web of large-scale structure, all separated by the vastness of empty space between them, but it wasn’t born that way.—
Ethan Siegel,
Big Think,
11 Sep. 2025
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Like Phish or Taylor Swift or The Dead, 21P have created a universe for their fans that is a self-sustaining mechanism, even if the hugeness of it doesn’t always translate into huge chart success.—
Gil Kaufman,
Billboard,
23 Sep. 2025
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Hawley, who directed the premiere, brings an impressive sense of scale to the action, conveying the hugeness of the spaceship and its urban crash zone, contrasted with the smallness of the figures trying to make their way through the mayhem.—
Noel Murray,
Vulture,
13 Aug. 2025
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“Enormity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enormity. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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