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as in badness
the state or quality of being utterly evil
the enormity of the crimes committed by the Nazis
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as in magnitude
the quality or state of being very large
the enormity of the canyon can only be grasped by taking a trip through its entire length
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Recent Examples of enormity
Greenhalgh was too busy trying to take in the enormity of it all.
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Stuart James, New York Times, 31 May 2025
Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as the storm closed in.
—Bluesky Social, 21 May 2025
This is an opportunity for the legal profession to unify, marshal its considerable brain power and resources, and fearlessly respond to the enormity of the challenge and the stakes.
—Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Given the enormity of their task, Li and her collaborators ultimately crowdsourced the task of labeling images to gig workers, using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2025
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Stuart James, New York Times, 31 May 2025
Yet, local residents remained largely unaware of the enormity of danger approaching as the storm closed in.
—Bluesky Social, 21 May 2025
This is an opportunity for the legal profession to unify, marshal its considerable brain power and resources, and fearlessly respond to the enormity of the challenge and the stakes.
—Mark A. Cohen, Forbes.com, 12 May 2025
Given the enormity of their task, Li and her collaborators ultimately crowdsourced the task of labeling images to gig workers, using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform.
—IEEE Spectrum, 21 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for enormity
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On August 29, a magnitude 8.8 earthquake rocked the Kamchatka Peninsula, a stretch of land that extends southward into the Bering Sea from Russia’s northeast coast.—
Kiona N. Smith,
Forbes.com,
30 July 2025
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Evacuations were ordered across the Pacific Ocean after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia’s Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday.—
Victor Loh,
CNBC,
30 July 2025
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For Córdova, that path began with a moment of astonishment: watching a television program about neutron stars as a young woman, she was struck by the immensity of the cosmos and felt the pull of a question that would guide her for a lifetime — how does the universe work?—
John Drake,
Forbes.com,
2 June 2025
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But others, thankfully, find a way to talk about the immensity of caregiving and domestic work without degrading it.—
Elissa Strauss,
Glamour,
10 May 2025
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On August 3, 2014, Daesh launched a devastating attack on Sinjar, inflicting widespread atrocities on the Yazidi community.—
Dr. Ewelina U. Ochab,
Forbes.com,
1 Aug. 2025
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The Vietnam War was lost after squandering more than $1 trillion in current dollars, and suffering more than 55,000 American military deaths, millions of Vietnamese casualties, the My Lai massacre, napalm girl and countless other atrocities.—
Bruce Fein,
Baltimore Sun,
24 July 2025
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“Enormity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/enormity. Accessed 4 Aug. 2025.
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