enormity
/ih-NOR-mih-tee/nounthe great scale of something bad; extreme seriousness
“The enormity of the fraud emerged over months.”
- Synonyms
- atrocity, wickedness, magnitude
- Antonyms
- triviality
- Memory hook
- enormity: badness off the norm's scale.
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