enormity
31enormity — n. 1. Atrociousness, depravity, atrocity, flagitiousness, heinousness, nefariousness, outrageousness, wickedness. 2. Atrocious crime, flagitious villany …
32enormity — n 1. atrociousness, wickedness, evilness, fiendishness, heinousness; cruelty, barbarity, savagery, brutality, murderousness; ferocity, fierceness, trucu lence, inhumanity, monstrousness, ruthlessness; horri bleness, hideousness, dreadfulness,… …
33enormity — enor·mi·ty …
34enormity — n. (pl. ies) 1 extreme wickedness. 2 an act of extreme wickedness. 3 a serious error. 4 disp. great size; enormousness. Etymology: ME f. F eacutenormiteacute f. L enormitas tatis f. enormis (as ENORMOUS) …
35the enormity of — the large scale or extreme seriousness of (something bad). → enormity …
36enormousness — enormity, enormousness 1. Both words are derived from Latin e norma meaning ‘out of the ordinary’, and both originally had meanings associated with wicked and criminal aspects of abnormality. Enormity (15c) is older than enormousness (17c), and… …
37Enormities — Enormity E*nor mi*ty, n.; pl. {Enormities}. [L. enormitas, fr. enormis enormous: cf. F. [ e]normit[ e]. See {Enormous}.] 1. The state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. [1913 Webster] The… …
38List of English words with disputed usage — Some English words are often used in ways that are contentious between writers on usage and prescriptive commentators. The contentious usages are especially common in spoken English. While in some circles the usages below may make the speaker… …
39atrocity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. enormity; outrage. See malevolence, badness. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Brutality] Syn. inhumanity, wickedness, barbarity; see cruelty . 2. [A cruel deed] Syn. crime, offense, outrage, atrocious deed,… …
40Quim Monzó — (born March 24, 1952 in Barcelona, Spain), is a contemporary Catalan writer of short stories and discursive prose, mostly in the Catalan language. He lives in Barcelona and publishes regularly in La Vanguardia . His fiction is characterized by an …
