Noun: enormity i'nor-mi-tee
- The quality of extreme wickedness
"The enormity of their crimes shocked the world"
- An act of extreme wickedness
"The enormity of the genocide shocked the world"
- Great importance, scope or extent
"universities recognized the enormity of their task"
Derived forms: enormities
Type of: atrocity, enormousness, grandness, greatness, hugeness, immenseness, immensity, inhumanity, nefariousness, sizeableness, ugliness, vastitude, vastness, vileness, wickedness, wideness