"enormity" meaning in All languages combined

See enormity on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪˈnɔːmɪti/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ɪˈnoɹmɪti/ [General-American], [-ɾi] [General-American] Audio: en-au-enormity.ogg [Australia], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Enormity.wav [UK] Forms: enormities [plural]
Etymology: From Late Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), from ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). Ēnōrmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’) + nōrma (“norm, standard”) + -is (Latin suffix forming adjectives from nouns). Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|ēnorme||monstrous or unnatural act; enormity}} Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), {{der|en|fro|énormité||enormity}} Old French énormité (“enormity”), {{der|en|la|ēnormitās||irregularity; enormity}} Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), {{m|la|ēnōrmis||irregular, unusual; enormous, immense}} ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”), {{m|la|-itās}} -itās, {{m|la|e-}} e-, {{m|la|ex-}} ex-, {{m|la|nōrma||norm, standard}} nōrma (“norm, standard”), {{m|la|-is}} -is Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} enormity (countable and uncountable, plural enormities)
  1. (obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality. Tags: countable, obsolete, uncountable Synonyms (deviation from what is normal or standard): anomalousness
    Sense id: en-enormity-en-noun-90rTLw7l Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 28 23 25 Disambiguation of 'deviation from what is normal or standard': 80 18 1 0
  2. (uncountable) Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty. Tags: uncountable Synonyms (deviation from moral normality): atrociousness Translations (extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty): чудовищност (čudovištnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), enormidade [feminine] (Galician), immānitās (Latin), enormidade [feminine] (Portuguese), enormitate [feminine] (Romanian), perversidad [feminine] (Spanish), enormidad [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-enormity-en-noun-UUK20lsu Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 28 23 25 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 24 30 23 24 Disambiguation of 'deviation from moral normality': 15 80 5 0 Disambiguation of 'extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty': 1 89 7 3
  3. (countable) A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness. Tags: countable Synonyms (a breach of law or morality): desecration, violation
    Sense id: en-enormity-en-noun-~CZxd7gx Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 28 23 25 Disambiguation of 'a breach of law or morality': 0 5 94 0
  4. (uncountable, sometimes proscribed) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness. Tags: proscribed, sometimes, uncountable Categories (topical): Size Synonyms: ginormity, size Synonyms (great size): immensity, prodigiousness Translations (great size): enormitat [feminine] (Catalan), enormidade [feminine] (Galician), milzīgums [masculine] (Latvian), gigantiskums [masculine] (Latvian), enormidade [feminine] (Portuguese), imensitate [feminine] (Romanian), enormidad [feminine] (Spanish), gigantez [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-enormity-en-noun--DZuQ~JX Disambiguation of Size: 0 0 0 100 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 28 23 25 Disambiguation of 'great size': 0 0 0 100 Disambiguation of 'great size': 0 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: oddness, weirdness, strangeness, depravity, immorality, villainy Related terms: enormous, enormously, enormousness, norm, normative, normatively, normativity

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for enormity meaning in All languages combined (11.3kB)

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ēnorme",
        "4": "",
        "5": "monstrous or unnatural act; enormity"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "énormité",
        "4": "",
        "5": "enormity"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French énormité (“enormity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ēnormitās",
        "4": "",
        "5": "irregularity; enormity"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ēnōrmis",
        "3": "",
        "4": "irregular, unusual; enormous, immense"
      },
      "expansion": "ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-itās"
      },
      "expansion": "-itās",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "e-"
      },
      "expansion": "e-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ex-"
      },
      "expansion": "ex-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nōrma",
        "3": "",
        "4": "norm, standard"
      },
      "expansion": "nōrma (“norm, standard”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-is"
      },
      "expansion": "-is",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), from ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). Ēnōrmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’) + nōrma (“norm, standard”) + -is (Latin suffix forming adjectives from nouns).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enormities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "enormity (countable and uncountable, plural enormities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "enorm‧i‧ty"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "enormous"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "enormously"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "enormousness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "norm"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "normative"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "normatively"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "normativity"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 23 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality."
      ],
      "id": "en-enormity-en-noun-90rTLw7l",
      "links": [
        [
          "irregularity",
          "irregularity"
        ],
        [
          "abnormality",
          "abnormality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "80 18 1 0",
          "sense": "deviation from what is normal or standard",
          "word": "anomalousness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 23 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 30 23 24",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot’s oppression.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June 6, Duncan White, “Boston Marathon bombing: New book ‘Road to a Modern Tragedy’ examines Tsarnaev brothers’ motivation [print version: Behind the mask, page R23]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, archived from the original on 2015-06-11",
          "text": "Hannah Arendt coined the phrase \"the banality of evil\" in her dispatches for The New Yorker from Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem in 1961. It was her attempt to square the mediocrity of the man with the enormity of his crimes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty."
      ],
      "id": "en-enormity-en-noun-UUK20lsu",
      "links": [
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "wickedness",
          "wickedness"
        ],
        [
          "nefariousness",
          "nefariousness"
        ],
        [
          "cruelty",
          "cruelty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "15 80 5 0",
          "sense": "deviation from moral normality",
          "word": "atrociousness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "bg",
          "lang": "Bulgarian",
          "roman": "čudovištnost",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "чудовищност"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "la",
          "lang": "Latin",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "word": "immānitās"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormitate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "perversidad"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "1 89 7 3",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormidad"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 23 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591",
          "text": "Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 93",
          "text": "In 1650 Lieutenant William Jackson was in trouble for holding, among many other enormities, ‘community of all things’, including, apparently, wives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness."
      ],
      "id": "en-enormity-en-noun-~CZxd7gx",
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "morality",
          "morality"
        ],
        [
          "transgression",
          "transgression"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 5 94 0",
          "sense": "a breach of law or morality",
          "word": "desecration"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 5 94 0",
          "sense": "a breach of law or morality",
          "word": "violation"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "23 28 23 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "0 0 0 100",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Size",
          "orig": "en:Size",
          "parents": [
            "Nature",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Magda Denes, Castles Burning: A Child’s Life in War",
          "text": "I am in Amerika! I felt like weeping at the enormity of this fact. Amerika, the fabled, the mythic, the coveted. The knowledge that we had no visas, and therefore would not be allowed to set foot on land, dampened my enthusiasm only a little.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon: A Century in Exile, New York, N.Y.: BlueBridge, page 103",
          "text": "But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0–1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2015-03-13",
          "text": "[Wayne] Rooney and his team-mates started ponderously, as if sensing the enormity of the occasion, but once [Paul] Scholes began to link with Ryan Giggs in the middle of the park, the visitors increased the tempo with Sunderland struggling to keep up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness."
      ],
      "id": "en-enormity-en-noun--DZuQ~JX",
      "links": [
        [
          "Great",
          "great#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "size",
          "size#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "enormousness",
          "enormousness"
        ],
        [
          "hugeness",
          "hugeness"
        ],
        [
          "immenseness",
          "immenseness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, sometimes proscribed) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ginormity"
        },
        {
          "word": "size"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "sense": "great size",
          "word": "immensity"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "sense": "great size",
          "word": "prodigiousness"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "ca",
          "lang": "Catalan",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormitat"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "milzīgums"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "lv",
          "lang": "Latvian",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "gigantiskums"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormidade"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "imensitate"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "enormidad"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "great size",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "gigantez"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnɔːmɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnoɹmɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ɾi]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-enormity.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/En-au-enormity.ogg/En-au-enormity.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-au-enormity.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Enormity.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GB)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "oddness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "weirdness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "strangeness"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "depravity"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "immorality"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "villainy"
    }
  ],
  "word": "enormity"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English 4-syllable words",
    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from Latin",
    "English terms derived from Middle English",
    "English terms derived from Old French",
    "English terms inherited from Middle English",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
    "en:Size"
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "enm",
        "3": "ēnorme",
        "4": "",
        "5": "monstrous or unnatural act; enormity"
      },
      "expansion": "Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”)",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "fro",
        "3": "énormité",
        "4": "",
        "5": "enormity"
      },
      "expansion": "Old French énormité (“enormity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "la",
        "3": "ēnormitās",
        "4": "",
        "5": "irregularity; enormity"
      },
      "expansion": "Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ēnōrmis",
        "3": "",
        "4": "irregular, unusual; enormous, immense"
      },
      "expansion": "ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-itās"
      },
      "expansion": "-itās",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "e-"
      },
      "expansion": "e-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "ex-"
      },
      "expansion": "ex-",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "nōrma",
        "3": "",
        "4": "norm, standard"
      },
      "expansion": "nōrma (“norm, standard”)",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "-is"
      },
      "expansion": "-is",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Late Middle English ēnorme (“monstrous or unnatural act; enormity”), from Old French énormité (“enormity”), from Latin ēnormitās (“irregularity; enormity”), from ēnōrmis (“irregular, unusual; enormous, immense”) + -itās (suffix forming nouns indicating states of being). Ēnōrmis is derived from e- (a variant of ex- (prefix meaning ‘out; away’) + nōrma (“norm, standard”) + -is (Latin suffix forming adjectives from nouns).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "enormities",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "enormity (countable and uncountable, plural enormities)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "hyphenation": [
    "enorm‧i‧ty"
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "enormous"
    },
    {
      "word": "enormously"
    },
    {
      "word": "enormousness"
    },
    {
      "word": "norm"
    },
    {
      "word": "normative"
    },
    {
      "word": "normatively"
    },
    {
      "word": "normativity"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with obsolete senses"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "irregularity",
          "irregularity"
        ],
        [
          "abnormality",
          "abnormality"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "obsolete",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot’s oppression.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015 June 6, Duncan White, “Boston Marathon bombing: New book ‘Road to a Modern Tragedy’ examines Tsarnaev brothers’ motivation [print version: Behind the mask, page R23]”, in The Daily Telegraph (Review), London, archived from the original on 2015-06-11",
          "text": "Hannah Arendt coined the phrase \"the banality of evil\" in her dispatches for The New Yorker from Adolf Eichmann's trial in Jerusalem in 1961. It was her attempt to square the mediocrity of the man with the enormity of his crimes.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "extreme",
          "extreme#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "wickedness",
          "wickedness"
        ],
        [
          "nefariousness",
          "nefariousness"
        ],
        [
          "cruelty",
          "cruelty"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable) Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1870 July, Jean-Henri Merle d’Aubigné, “Dr Merle D’Aubigne on the Council and Infallibility”, in The British and Foreign Evangelical Review, volume XIX, number LXXIII, London: James Nisbet & Co., Berners Street; Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, →OCLC, page 591",
          "text": "Monsters of impurity, avaricious wretches, poisoners, have occupied the papal see. A learned bishop (Maret of the General Council) expresses himself with holy indignation in reference to the frightful enormities of the tenth century.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1972, Christopher Hill, The World Turned Upside Down, Folio Society, published 2016, page 93",
          "text": "In 1650 Lieutenant William Jackson was in trouble for holding, among many other enormities, ‘community of all things’, including, apparently, wives.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "law",
          "law"
        ],
        [
          "morality",
          "morality"
        ],
        [
          "transgression",
          "transgression"
        ],
        [
          "evil",
          "evil"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(countable) A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English proscribed terms",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1997, Magda Denes, Castles Burning: A Child’s Life in War",
          "text": "I am in Amerika! I felt like weeping at the enormity of this fact. Amerika, the fabled, the mythic, the coveted. The knowledge that we had no visas, and therefore would not be allowed to set foot on land, dampened my enthusiasm only a little.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon: A Century in Exile, New York, N.Y.: BlueBridge, page 103",
          "text": "But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0–1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport, archived from the original on 2015-03-13",
          "text": "[Wayne] Rooney and his team-mates started ponderously, as if sensing the enormity of the occasion, but once [Paul] Scholes began to link with Ryan Giggs in the middle of the park, the visitors increased the tempo with Sunderland struggling to keep up.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Great",
          "great#Adjective"
        ],
        [
          "size",
          "size#Noun"
        ],
        [
          "enormousness",
          "enormousness"
        ],
        [
          "hugeness",
          "hugeness"
        ],
        [
          "immenseness",
          "immenseness"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(uncountable, sometimes proscribed) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "ginormity"
        },
        {
          "word": "size"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "proscribed",
        "sometimes",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnɔːmɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪˈnoɹmɪti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[-ɾi]",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "en-au-enormity.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/2/2f/En-au-enormity.ogg/En-au-enormity.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2f/En-au-enormity.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    },
    {
      "audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Back ache-Enormity.wav",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/b/ba/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Back_ache-Enormity.wav.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (GB)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "deviation from what is normal or standard",
      "word": "anomalousness"
    },
    {
      "word": "oddness"
    },
    {
      "word": "weirdness"
    },
    {
      "word": "strangeness"
    },
    {
      "sense": "deviation from moral normality",
      "word": "atrociousness"
    },
    {
      "word": "depravity"
    },
    {
      "word": "immorality"
    },
    {
      "word": "villainy"
    },
    {
      "sense": "a breach of law or morality",
      "word": "desecration"
    },
    {
      "sense": "a breach of law or morality",
      "word": "violation"
    },
    {
      "sense": "great size",
      "word": "immensity"
    },
    {
      "sense": "great size",
      "word": "prodigiousness"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "čudovištnost",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "чудовищност"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "word": "immānitās"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "perversidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "ca",
      "lang": "Catalan",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormitat"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "milzīgums"
    },
    {
      "code": "lv",
      "lang": "Latvian",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gigantiskums"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "imensitate"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "enormidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "great size",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gigantez"
    }
  ],
  "word": "enormity"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.