Bigness vs Enormity - What's the difference?
bigness | enormity | Related terms |
The characteristic of being big.
(obsolete) size
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(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.
(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.
(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.
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* 2007 , Edwin Mullins, The Popes of Avignon , Blue Bridge 2008, p. 103:
Bigness is a related term of enormity.
As nouns the difference between bigness and enormity
is that bigness is the characteristic of being big while enormity is (uncountable) extreme wickedness, nefariousness.bigness
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Noun
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enormity
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Noun
(enormities)- Not until the war ended and journalists were able to enter Cambodia did the world really become aware of the enormity of Pol Pot's oppression.
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- But the enormity of Clement's vision of papal grandeur only became clear once the public rooms were completed during the years that immediately followed.