Usually means: Extreme magnitude of something negative.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. enormity: Merriam-Webster
  2. enormity: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. enormity: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. enormity: Collins English Dictionary
  5. enormity: Vocabulary.com
  6. Enormity, enormity: Wordnik
  7. enormity: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. enormity: Wiktionary
  9. enormity: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. enormity: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. enormity: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Enormity, enormity: Dictionary.com
  13. enormity: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Enormity: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. enormity: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. enormity: Rhymezone
  17. enormity: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. enormity: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. enormity: FreeDictionary.org
  20. enormity: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. enormity: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Enormity: World Wide Words
  23. enormity: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. enormity: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. enormity: A Word A Day
  2. enormity: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  (obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.
noun:  (uncountable) Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty.
noun:  (countable) A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness.
noun:  (uncountable, sometimes proscribed) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness.

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