Synonyms for enormity
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Immensity — great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness
immensity, hugeness, vastness, magnitude, bigness, largeness, bulk, enormousness, prodigiousness, ginormity informal, greatness
2. Desecration — A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness
3. Atrocity
atrocity, depravity, crime, sin, wickedness, evil, villainy, immorality, atrociousness, heinousness, nefariousness, flagitiousness, flagrancy, criminality, iniquity
4. Outrageousness
outrageousness, oddness, weirdness, abnormality, deviancy, freakishness, peculiarness, nonnormality, anomalousness, strangeness, oddity
Definitions
- n. 1
A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness.
- n. 2
Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness.
- n. 3
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.
Related words
- Word family
- enormous enormously enormousness
Forms
- Plural
- enormities → immensities, hugenesses, vastnesses, magnitudes…
Example sentences
- magnitude No one could believe the magnitude of the tragedy.
- vastness The stars shine brightly in the vastness of space.
- immensity I love the immensity of the Sahara Desert.
- atrocity It is hard to believe that humans are capable of such atrocity.
By length
- 3 letters
- sin1
- 4 letters
- evil2, bulk1
- 5 letters
- crime1
- 6 letters
- oddity3
- 7 letters
- bigness2, oddness
- 8 letters
- atrocity4, vastness2, iniquity4, villainy, deviancy4, hugeness
- 9 letters
- violation4, magnitude3, greatness2, depravity4, weirdness2, immensity, largeness2, ginormity, flagrancy
- 10 letters
- wickedness3, immorality5
- 11 letters
- criminality5, abnormality5, desecration4, strangeness2, heinousness
- 12 letters
- freakishness, enormousness, peculiarness, nonnormality
- 13 letters
- atrociousness, nefariousness, anomalousness
- 14 letters
- outrageousness4, prodigiousness, flagitiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (evil2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- énormité