enormity

Doesn’t exactly measure up to the enormity of the classics, does it?

From Salon ● Jul. 22, 2026

Part of the problem was the sheer enormity of the initial outbreak, which quickly strained available stocks of tests, medications, and PPE, not to mention hospital beds and healthcare workers’ time.

From Slate ● Jun. 9, 2026

Her family sat aghast through the trial, trying to absorb not just the enormity of what had happened but also the tragedy of knowing that major companies could have revealed Krug's stalker far earlier.

From BBC ● May 22, 2026

“I don’t know if the enormity of this has sunk in yet,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 3, 2026

There are no clouds and the mountains, McKinley on the right, tower over us in dazzling white enormity, filling the sky while the sun warms our backs and the dogs settle into running.

From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen

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

But, in a novel as obsessed with particulars as this one is, the effect is not to measure one trauma against another so much as to hold the enormities aloft, side by side and distinct.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 26, 2018

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