Enormity – meaning, usage, quotes, and social examples

The word of the day is ‘enormity’.

The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.

No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.

It means:
1. Horribleness
2. A grave crime or sin
3. Horror
4. The great or extreme scale, seriousness, or extent of something perceived as bad or morally wrong.

1. Until now the enormity of his offence had not penetrated her understanding.
2. These chaps seemed to value a man by the enormity and number of his crimes.
3. As to your gambling sins, there is no end to their enormity.
4. And she was aghast at the enormity of her selfish thoughtlessness.
5. His pessimism about his play caused him to exaggerate the enormity of his offences.

Some synonyms of today’s word are:
depravity, horror, abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, disgrace, evil, evilness, grossness, heinousness, monstrosity, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness, flagrancy, monstrousness wickedness, baseness, blackness, hideousness, dreadfulness, awfulness, nastiness, cruelty, inhumanity, mercilessness, brutality, brutalism, bestiality, barbarism, barbarousness, savagery, barbarity, act of brutality, act of savagery, act of wickedness
act of cruelty, abomination, obscenity, iniquity, violation, transgression, wrong, wrongdoing, offence, injury, affront, scandal, injustice, abuse, malfeasance, tort etc.

Some antonyms of this word of the day are:
delight, esteem, goodness, joy, kindness, virtue, smallness, tininess, triviality