enormity

noun

i-ˈnȯr-mə-tē How to pronounce enormity (audio)
Definition of enormitynext
1
as in badness
the state or quality of being utterly evil the enormity of the crimes committed by the Nazis

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2
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 This view shows the enormity of this mountain range, which separates Nepal from China's Tibetan Plateau. — Chelsea Gohd, Space.com, 15 July 2026 Cooper, who had not watched Power, couldn’t grasp the enormity of the casting at the time, but was excited by the challenge of building Jarita’s origin story. — Rosy Cordero, Deadline, 3 July 2026 Words can't express the enormity of this tragedy. — Katie Houlis, CBS News, 20 June 2026 Its enormity eclipsed the hot desert sun. — Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 12 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for enormity
Recent Examples of Synonyms for enormity
  1. badness
  2. magnitude
  3. sinfulness
  4. immensity
  5. atrocity
  6. vastness
  7. evilness
  8. hugeness
Noun
  • On one side, a satanic figure named Randall Flagg who gathers his forces of badness to Las Vegas; on the other, the good guys, led by 108-year-old Mother Abigail in, of all places, Boulder.
    — Barbara Ellis, Denver Post, 15 Jan. 2026
  • The show premiered over Thanksgiving weekend, when people were tired and full and bored (and probably also horny), and countered our world’s unceasing badness with its world’s buoyant sweetness.
    — Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 12 Jan. 2026
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  • The team reports that as nearly an order-of-magnitude improvement over previous comparable ferromagnetic Hall sensors.
    — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 15 Aug. 2026
  • In December of 1992, a magnitude 7 earthquake caused a tsunami that killed about 2,500 people on the southeastern island of Flores, part of a group of islands in the eastern half of Indonesia.
    — Babak Dehghanpisheh, NBC news, 14 Aug. 2026
Definition of magnitude
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  • But soon after, in Genesis 18, God tells Abraham of plans to investigate reports of sinfulness in Sodom and Gomorrah.
    — Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 July 2026
  • Denver author Josiah Hesse was raised by Evangelical parents in churches that believe in the torments of hell, that their poverty is due to their sinfulness and lack of faith.
    — Sandra Dallas, Denver Post, 1 Feb. 2026
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  • Take in the 55-foot-high arches with their 29,000 Guastavino ceiling tiles, the larger-than-life windows, and try, just try, to reckon with the immensity of Detroit's story.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
  • But Supergirl doesn’t quite want to deal with the immensity of its protagonist’s feelings; her drunken stupor is often played for laughs, defined by disheveled hair, big sunglasses, and plenty of slurred speech.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 26 June 2026
Definition of immensity
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  • More than 120,000 of these atrocities are operating in the United States today — and that number is rapidly growing.
    — Steven Greenhut, Oc Register, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The Disappearers is, among other things, one novel responding to many atrocities.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of atrocity
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  • The book features portraits of puesteros between shots of domestic settings and local landscapes—the little that belongs to them and the vastness that does not.
    — Ana Karina Zatarain, New Yorker, 15 Aug. 2026
  • One group got no special instructions, while the other was told to actively find moments of awe on their walk, seeking out novelty, tapping into wonder, and noticing the vastness of things, even in their own neighborhood—all subjective, of course.
    — Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 6 Aug. 2026
Definition of vastness
Noun
  • That was really what helped me into the character and into her evilness.
    — William Earl, Variety, 4 Oct. 2025
Definition of evilness
Noun
  • The script brilliantly lays that out to counteract some of the hugeness of her character.
    — David Canfield, HollywoodReporter, 28 July 2026
  • Nowhere in the vestiges of what was once the sprawl of corporate hugeness known as The General Electric Company are there signs that Katharine Blodgett's laboratory notebooks still exist.
    — Natalia Sánchez Loayza, Scientific American, 13 Mar. 2026
Definition of hugeness

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