enormity
Vast moral outrage
Enormity traditionally refers to extreme wickedness or moral outrage, not merely large size: the enormity of the crime shocked even seasoned detectives.
However, enormity is now widely used to mean immense scale or magnitude, especially of problems or tasks: the enormity of the refugee crisis.
Purists object to this second sense, preferring enormousness for sheer size, but the usage is well established.
Context usually clarifies whether moral weight or scale is intended.
Profound moral wickedness
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- heinousnessExtreme moral reprehensibility
- vilenessDespicable quality
iniquity · monstrousness · abomination · outrageousness · sinfulness · baseness · turpitude · villainy
State of being immense
expanse · massiveness · dimensions · proportions · size · breadth · bulk · volume
Earnest, weighty demeanor
- weightinessState of being consequential
- severityIntensity of sternness
- magnitudeSize or scale
- significanceQuality of mattering
importance · solemnity · momentousness · profoundness · depth · urgency · criticality · graveness
Propagating pressure disturbance
- repercussionIndirect result of action
- aftermathResults following an event
- consequenceResult of an action
- ramificationSecondary consequence of action
fallout · upheaval · disruption · reverberations · ripple · aftereffect · resonance · weight
evil
Profound moral wickedness
- depravityProfound moral corruption
- atrocityUnforgivable mass cruelty
- heinousnessExtreme moral reprehensibility
vileness · iniquity · monstrousness · abomination · outrageousness · sinfulness · baseness · turpitude · villainy · immorality
vastness
State of being immense
extent · expanse · massiveness · dimensions · proportions · size · breadth · bulk · volume · amplitude
seriousness
Earnest, weighty demeanor
- weightinessState of being consequential
- severityIntensity of sternness
- magnitudeSize or scale
significance · importance · solemnity · momentousness · profoundness · depth · urgency · criticality · graveness · consequence
shockwave
Propagating pressure disturbance
- repercussionIndirect result of action
- aftermathResults following an event
- consequenceResult of an action
ramification · fallout · upheaval · disruption · reverberations · ripple · aftereffect · resonance · weight · force
- magnitudemagnitude, size, extent, scope, scale
- Bignessvastness, magnitude, expanse, towering height, titanic
- vastnessexpanse, infinity, boundlessness, limitlessness, vastness
- grammar debatesirregardless, ain't, split infinitive, singular they, could of
- misused wordsliterally, irregardless, ironic, disinterested, nauseous
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
enormitygoodness
Moral excellence
righteousness · virtue · peccadillo · triviality · virtuousness
enormitysmallness
Minimal physical extent
tininess · minuteness · littleness · diminutiveness · puniness
enormitytriviality
Unimportant small matter
insignificance · inconsequentiality · unimportance · pettiness · negligibility