enormity

1. 1.

   the quality of being outrageous

   Synonymsoutrageousness

   Broaderindecency
2. 2.

   vastness of size or extent

   “in careful usage the noun enormity is not used to express the idea of great size”

   “universities recognized the enormity of their task”

   Broaderenormousness

   colloquialism

3. 3.

   the quality of extreme wickedness

   Broadernefariousness
4. 4.

   an act of extreme wickedness

   Broaderatrocity

Other forms of enormity

plural

enormities·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about enormity

What does enormity mean?

enormity means "the quality of being outrageous". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in enormity?

enormity has 4 syllables: e-nor-mi-ty. The stress falls on "nor". In IPA it is /ɪˈnɔɹməti/.

What is another word for enormity?

Close synonyms include outrageousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is enormity a common word?

enormity is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.