enormity

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noun

Plural noun:

enormities

1.
(countable, obsolete, uncountable)Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
2.
(uncountable)Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty.
Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot’s oppression.
3.
(countable)A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness.
4.
(proscribed, sometimes, uncountable)(uncountable, sometimes proscribed) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness.
Đồng nghĩa: ginormity, size, bigness, bulk, largeness, magnitude, scale

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ginormitysizebignessbulklargenessmagnitude scale desecration violationatrociousnessdepravity immoralityanomalousnessoddness weirdnessimmensityprodigiousnessa breach of law or morality desecration, violationgreat size immensity, prodigiousness

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From Late Middle English ēnorme (monstrous or unnatural act; enormity), from Old French énormité (enormity), from Latin ēnormitās (irregularity; enormity), from ēnōrmis (irregular, unusual; enormous, immense) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). Ēnōrmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out;