enormity
noun
outrageous or heinous character; atrociousness.
enormities
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pluralof enormity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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In recent years, he has worked on an increasingly vast scale, as he searches for the most minimal means to convey nature’s immersive enormities: dark forests, distant escarpments, moonlight on water, wintry fields.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 29, 2022
A minor peccadillo alongside the enormities rightly laid at the door of your man.
From New York Times ● Oct. 14, 2022
The Lincoln Center Festival once again offers a full plate of international oddities and enormities.
From The New Yorker ● May 15, 2015
Such musings worried lawyers and civil-liberties campaigners, who are accustomed to governments reacting to enormities with draconian new laws.
From Economist ● Aug. 28, 2014
The worst of them made up uglier names than Bolshevist even, and allowed the brutal side of their natures to dwell on imaginary enormities which they attributed to the knights.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
