'Enormity' definitions:
Definition of 'enormity'
From: WordNet
noun
The quality of being outrageous [syn: outrageousness, enormity]
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"
noun
The quality of extreme wickedness
noun
An act of extreme wickedness
Definition of 'Enormity'
From: GCIDE
- Enormity \E*nor"mi*ty\, n.; pl. Enormities. [L. enormitas, fr. enormis enormous: cf. F. ['e]normit['e]. See Enormous.]
- 1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. [1913 Webster]
- The enormity of his learned acquisitions. --De Quincey. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. [1913 Webster]
- These clamorous enormities which are grown too big and strong for law or shame. --South. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'enormity'
From: 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