enormity

enormity

enormity (plural enormities)

1. (uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness. [from 15th c.]

   Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pots oppression.

2. (countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness. [from 15th c.]
3. (uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness. [from 18th c.]
   • 2007, Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon, Blue Bridge 2008, p. 103:

     But the enormity of Clements vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.

crimine

enormità

mostruosità

Altri significati:

Anything that is especially big, bulky, heavy, long, huge, etc. which is often being recognized with astonishment or admiration.

(uncountable) (proscribed) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.

(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.

(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.

Traduzione 'veloce'

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