enormity

/ih-NOR-mih-tee/noun

the 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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