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enormity
noun as in horribleness
noun as in extreme largeness
Strong matches
Weak matches
Example Sentences
AFP reporters witnessed residents grappling with the enormity of the disaster.
Any of Gein’s contemporaries who are still alive would have been too young to fully grasp the enormity of the way he desecrated the memory and bodies of their community’s loved ones.
The company calls these “third-party factoring irregularities” in its bankruptcy documents, which lawyers for a lender criticized as unduly “euphemistic,” given “the enormity of this potential defalcation.”
Martin also said he "fully understood the enormity and disappointment" of many party members.
All 34 charges came back guilty, and I spent that night's main news bulletin explaining the enormity of the idea that a former president was now a convicted felon – a first in US history.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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