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As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
Todd Gitlin

Meaning of "enormity" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD ENORMITY

From Old French enormite, from Late Latin ēnormitās hugeness.
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PRONUNCIATION OF ENORMITY

enormity  [ɪˈnɔːmɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ENORMITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Enormity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ENORMITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of enormity in the English dictionary

The first definition of enormity in the dictionary is the quality or character of being outrageous; extreme wickedness. Other definition of enormity is an act of great wickedness; atrocity. Enormity is also vastness of size or extent.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ENORMITY


abnormity
æbˈnɔːmɪtɪ
amity
ˈæmɪtɪ
anonymity
ˌænɒˈnɪmɪtɪ
calamity
kəˈlæmɪtɪ
committee
kəˈmɪtɪ
conformity
kənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
deformity
dɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ
difformity
dɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ
disconformity
ˌdɪskənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
furmity
ˈfɜːmɪtɪ
inconformity
ˌɪnkənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
infirmity
ɪnˈfɜːmɪtɪ
multiformity
ˌmʌltɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ
nonconformity
ˌnɒnkənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
nonuniformity
ˌnɒnˌjuːnɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ
omniformity
ˌɒmnɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ
proximity
prɒkˈsɪmɪtɪ
subcommittee
ˈsʌbkəˌmɪtɪ
unconformity
ˌʌnkənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
uniformity
ˌjuːnɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ENORMITY

enodal
enokitake
enol
enolase
enolic
enological
enologist
enology
enomoty
enophile
enormities
enormous
enormously
enormousness
Enos
enosis
enough
enounce
enouncement
enow

WORDS THAT END LIKE ENORMITY

comity
dimity
enmity
equanimity
fogramity
homonymity
intimity
longanimity
magnanimity
mity
parvanimity
pseudonymity
pusillanimity
sublimity
supremity
synonymity
unanimity

Synonyms and antonyms of enormity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ENORMITY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «enormity» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of enormity

Translation of «enormity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ENORMITY

Find out the translation of enormity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of enormity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «enormity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

艰巨性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

enormidad
570 millions of speakers

English

enormity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

महापाप
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

ضخامة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

грандиозность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

enormidade
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিশালতা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

énormité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Besar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Ausmaß
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

>重大さ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

막중함
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Enormity
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

tội nặng
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

பெருங்கொடுமை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रचंडपणा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

iğrençlik
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

enormità
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

ogrom
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

грандіозність
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

enormitate
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τεράστιο μέγεθος
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

omvang
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

enorma
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

uhyrlige
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of enormity

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ENORMITY»

The term «enormity» is very widely used and occupies the 21.309 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ENORMITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «enormity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «enormity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about enormity

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10 QUOTES WITH «ENORMITY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word enormity.
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Antony Beevor
When we dwell on the enormity of the Second World War and its victims, we try to absorb all those statistics of national and ethnic tragedy. But, as a result, there is a tendency to overlook the way the war changed even the survivors' lives in ways impossible to predict.
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William J. Brennan, Jr.
Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.
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Ha-Joon Chang
People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.
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Emile M. Cioran
We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.
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Tom Cullen
To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.
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Jo Durie
That result at the French was a big break for me. I had been playing quite well up until that point but nobody really expected me to do well on clay - it was my worst surface. I had had some success on the clay but I was a set and a break up in the semi-final against Jausovec and maybe the enormity of the occasion got to me.
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Todd Gitlin
As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it.
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Michael Rapaport
To make independent films, you can't think about them too much, ponder on them too much, get overwhelmed by the enormity of it.
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Rex Tillerson
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60, 70 years, and then natural gas. So it takes 100 years or more for some new breakthrough in energy to become the dominant source. Most people have difficulty coming to grips with the sheer enormity of energy consumption.
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Lars von Trier
I sit there pouring out my woes year after year, coming up with one enormity after another about my mother and the way she let me down; but it doesn't make me any the less fearful.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ENORMITY»

Discover the use of enormity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to enormity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Enormity
Enormity is the strange tale of an American working in Korea, a lonely young man named Manny Lopes, who is not only physically small (in his own words, he's a ?Creole shrimp”), but his work, his failed marriage, his race, all conspire to ...
W. G. Marshall, 2012
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The enormity of the tragedy
A bawdy story of a pathetic middle-aged man who over night finds his impotence problem permanently fixed.
Quim Monzó, Peter Bush, 2007
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An Introduction to English Sentence Structure International ...
From this perspective, preposition copying arises when the preposition at the original extraction site undergoes copying but not deletion. To see what this means in more concrete terms, consider the syntax of (14a) In what enormity is Marcius ...
Andrew Radford, 2010
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An Introduction to English Sentence Structure
From this perspective, preposition copying arises when the preposition at the original extraction site undergoes copying but not deletion. To see what this means in more concrete terms, consider the syntax of (14a) In what enormity is Marcius ...
Andrew Radford, 2009
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A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
For example, Alan Dershowitz once said that Noam Chomsky "trivializes the enormity of the Chinese massacre [at Tiananmen Square in 1990]." Letter of Alan Dershowitz, Left's Response to Beijing Massacre, L.A. Times, 13 July 1989, at 2-6 .
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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The dramatic works of Ben Jonson, and Beaumont and Fletcher: ...
Brother Bartholomew, 1 am sadly sorry to see you so lightly given, and sucli a disciple of enormity, with your grave governor Humphrey : but stand you both there, in the middle place ; I will reprehend you in your course. Mistress Grace, let me ...
Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, George Colman, 1811
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Garner's Dictionary of Legal Usage
Frankish, 200 N.Y.S. 667, 668 (App. Div. 1923) (quoting the uncited opinion of Schubert v. Schubert). enormity; enormousness. The historical differentiation between these words should not be muddled. Enormousness = hugeness, vastness.
Bryan A. Garner, 2011
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Judging and Understanding: Essays on Free Will, Narrative, ...
First, I will expand on the form of the problem of the tension between enormity and complexity, whilst paying particular attention to establishing the presence and parameters of moral complexity within both individual moral experiences of the ...
Dr Pedro A Tabensky, 2012
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Quite Literally: Problem Words and how to Use Them
enormity,. enormous,. enormousness. enormous is used to mean either immense or excessive or both. 'He went to enormous trouble' means that he worked very hard - and should be praised rather than criticised for doing so - whereas 'he has  ...
Wynford Hicks, 2004
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Advanced Learner's Dictionary
2 raise (a person) to a noble rank, ennoblement a enormous (I'naimas) adj extraordinarily great in size, number, or degree: enormous sums of money enormously adv enorm- ousness n enormity n 1 the quality or state of being enormous.
Turton, 1998

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ENORMITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term enormity is used in the context of the following news items.
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One Man's Quest to Save the Most Colossal Fishes on Earth
The central irony of the world's biggest freshwater fishes is this: For all their enormity, they sure are hard to find. I'm willing to bet, for instance, ... «Wired, Jul 15»
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A Bosnian Serb in Phoenix says he's been labeled a war criminal …
“On the other hand, we shouldn't let the enormity of what happened there cloud our vision so that we can't discriminate between those who ... «PRI, Jul 15»
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Garbine Muguruza surprises Agnieszka Radwanska to reach …
A further break in the second underlined her supremacy but at 3-1, the enormity of the situation appeared to kick in. As Muguruza tightened ... «Express.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
A child's life in the Warsaw Ghetto
... of the challenge of accurately depicting the enormity of the tragedy, or the problem of using beautiful language to depict something so ugly. «Jewish Journal, Jul 15»
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Christians urge Western powers to take firmer line in Iran talks
It contains too many concessions given the enormity of this threat and the untrustworthy nature of the Iranian regime. We feel we must speak up ... «The Times of Israel, Jul 15»
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PSNI to hold criminal inquiry into Nama allegations
“However, given the enormity of the sums of money involved in these transactions, a more extensive judicial inquiry may be necessary to ... «Irish Times, Jul 15»
7
Warney on fire at World Series of Poker in Vegas
Earlier on day two, Warne spoke of the enormity of the challenge that lay ahead. “Tough table, I went out pretty aggressive,” Warne said. «Fox Sports, Jul 15»
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Before Vyapam scam, a plunder of fodder and health funds
The enormity of the scam and subsequent deaths reflect a similar pattern that the country has witnessed in the past vis-à-vis Bihar's fodder ... «Hindustan Times, Jul 15»
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Nigeria's knight in northern armour
His relaxed mien belies the enormity of the work ahead. Keys to Kaduna's revival. Transport Until the Abuja-Kaduna railway came along ... «The Africa Report, Jul 15»
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How big is Anonymous? Maybe bigger than you thought
The point of the study was to "show the enormity and connectivity of the Anonymous movement at a global level," he said. The end result ... «Christian Science Monitor, Jul 15»

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