enormity

4 definitions • 5 examples

very great size or importance:

enormity of Nobody fully understands the enormity and complexity of the task of reviving the country's economy.

I don't think you realize the enormity of the problem.

an extremely evil act or the quality of being extremely evil

great size or amount:

The enormity of the wilderness awed us.

a terrible or immoral act, or how terrible or immoral something is:

[ U ] Shock over the enormity of the crime has subsided.

[ C ] Goya’s etchings depict in shocking detail the enormities of war.