Definition of Enormity

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Enormity

The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous.

That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity.

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Enormity Quotations

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
Emile M. Cioran

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
Todd Gitlin

I am certain more emergency supplemental bills will be needed before this process is concluded. In fact, there is a point I have repeated several times recently which keeps the enormity of this situation in perspective.
Jo Bonner

This is the very womb and bed of enormity.
Ben Jonson

I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.
Lars von Trier

Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
William J. Brennan

Enormity Translations

enormity in Spanish is enormidad

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