the quality or character of being outrageous; extreme wickedness
2.
an act of great wickedness; atrocity
3. informal
vastness of size or extent
▶ USAGE In modern English, it is common to talk about the enormity of something such as a task or a problem, but one should not talk about the enormity of an object or area: distribution is a problem because of India's enormous size (not India's enormity)
Word origin
C15: from Old French enormite, from Late Latin ēnormitās hugeness; see enormous
Examples of 'enormities' in a sentence
enormities
The emperor was informed of her enormities, and hastened home to take vengeance.
Hugh Macmillan Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood (1888). Retrieved in 2019 from Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/)