enormity (n.)

  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

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