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enormity
noun
1 enormity
The quality of being outrageous.
synonym: outrageousness.
Roget 31:
greatness
etc.
adj.;
magnitude;
size
etc.
(dimensions)
192;
multitude
etc.
(number)
102;
immensity;
enormity;
infinity
etc.
105;
might,
strength,
intensity,
fullness;
importance
etc.
642.
great quantity,
quantity,
deal,
power,
sight,
pot,
volume,
world;
mass,
heap
etc.
(assemblage)
72;
stock
etc.
(store)
636;
peck,
bushel,
load,
cargo;
cartload†,
wagonload,
shipload;
flood,
spring tide;
abundance
etc.
(sufficiency)
639.
principal part,
chief part,
main part,
greater part,
major part,
best part,
essential part;
bulk,
mass
etc.
(whole)
50.
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Roget 192:
size,
magnitude,
dimension,
bulk,
volume;
largeness
etc.
adj.;
greatness
etc.
(of quantity)
31;
expanse
etc.
(space)
180;
amplitude,
mass;
proportions.
capacity,
tonnage,
tunnage;
cordage;
caliber,
scantling.
turgidity
etc.
(expansion)
194;
corpulence,
obesity;
plumpness
etc.
adj.;
embonpoint,
corporation,
flesh and blood,
lustihood.
hugeness
etc.
adj.;
enormity,
immensity,
monstrosity.
giant,
Brobdingnagian,
Antaeus,
Goliath,
Gog and Magog,
Gargantua,
monster,
mammoth,
Cyclops;
cachalot,
whale,
porpoise,
behemoth,
leviathan,
elephant,
hippopotamus;
colossus;
tun,
cord,
lump,
bulk,
block,
loaf,
mass,
swad,
clod,
nugget,
bushel,
thumper,
whooper,
spanker,
strapper;
Triton among the minnows"
[Coriolanus].
mountain,
mound;
heap
etc.
(assemblage)
72.
largest portion
etc.
50;
full size,
life size.
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Roget 947:
guilt,
guiltiness;
culpability;
criminality,
criminousness†;
deviation from rectitude
etc.
(improbity)
940†;
sinfulness
etc.
(vice)
945.
misconduct,
misbehavior,
misdoing,
misdeed;
malpractice,
fault,
sin,
error,
transgression;
dereliction,
delinquency;
indiscretion,
lapse,
slip,
trip,
faux pas [Fr.],
peccadillo;
flaw,
blot,
omission;
failing,
failure;
break,
bad break! [U.S.],
capital crime,
delictum [Lat.].
offense,
trespass;
misdemeanor,
misfeasance,
misprision;
malefaction,
malfeasance,
malversation;
crime,
felony.
enormity,
atrocity,
outrage;
deadly sin,
mortal sin;
deed without a name"
[Macbeth].
corpus delicti.
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2 enormity
Vastness of size or extent.
3 enormity
The quality of extreme wickedness.
4 enormity
An act of extreme wickedness.
Moby thesaurus: 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 ... show more.
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