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vileness
[vahyl] 
| Main Entry: |
enormity
[ih-nawr-mi-tee]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | horribleness |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, horror, monstrosity, monstrousness, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness |
| Notes: | enormity is the quality of extreme wickedness while enormousness is unusual largeness in size or extent |
| Antonyms: | goodness |
| Main Entry: | indecency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obscenity, vulgarity |
| Synonyms: | bawdiness, coarseness, crudity, drunkenness, evil, foulness, grossness, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, incivility, indecorum, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, offense, outrageousness, pornography, ribaldry, smuttiness, unseemliness, vileness |
| Antonyms: | chastity, cleanness, decency, modesty, purity, virtue |
| Main Entry: | obscenity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency, immorality; vulgarism |
| Synonyms: | X-rating, abomination, affront, atrocity, bawdiness, blight, blueness, coarseness, curse, dirtiness, dirty name, dirty word, evil, filthiness, foulness, four-letter word, immodesty, impropriety, impurity, indecency, indelicacy, lewdness, licentiousness, lubricity, offense, outrage, porn, pornography, profanity, prurience, salacity, scatology, scurrility, sleaze, smut, smuttiness, suggestiveness, swearword, vileness, vulgarity, wrong |
| Antonyms: | cleanness, decency, innocence, morality, propriety, purity, uprightness |
| Main Entry: | turpitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | depravity |
| Synonyms: | baseness, corruption, criminality, debasement, debauchery, degradation, evil, immorality, improbity, lewdness, licentiousness, perversion, sinfulness, vice, viciousness, vileness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | lewdness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indecency |
| Synonyms: | boorishness, brutishness, carnality, coarseness, concupiscence, corruptness, debauchery, depravity, dirtiness, dissoluteness, eroticism, erotism, evil, evilness, fleshliness, grossness, impurity, incontinence, incontinency, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, libidinousness, licentiousness, lubricity, lustfulness, obscenity, pederasty, pornography, prurience, pruriency, raunchiness, ribaldry, ruttishness, salaciousness, salacity, satyriasis, scurrility, smut, smuttiness, unchastity, vileness, villainy, voluptuousness, vulgarity, wantonness, wickedness |
| Antonyms: | continency, decency, modesty |
| Main Entry: | villainy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
| Synonyms: | atrociousness, atrocity, corruptness, depravity, evil, immorality, knavery, perversion, vileness, villainousness |
| Main Entry: | villainy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wickedness |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, baseness, depravity, knavery, rascality, scoundrelism, turpitude, viciousness, vileness |
| Main Entry: | atrociousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enormity |
| Synonyms: | atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, depravity, evilness, heinousness, monstrousness, vileness, wickedness |
| Main Entry: | monstrousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | enormity |
| Synonyms: | abomination, atrociousness, atrocity, crime, depravity, disgrace, evil, evilness, flagrancy, grossness, heinousness, horror, monstrosity, nefariousness, outrage, outrageousness, rankness, turpitude, vice, viciousness, vileness, villainy, wickedness |
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