Canker vs Enormity - What's the difference?
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(botany) A plant disease marked by gradual decay.
A corroding or sloughing ulcer; especially a spreading gangrenous ulcer or collection of ulcers in or about the mouth.
Anything which corrodes, corrupts, or destroys.
* Temple
A kind of wild rose; the dog rose.
* Shakespeare
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths. Usually resulting from neglected thrush.
An avian disease affecting doves, poultry, parrots and birds of prey, caused by Trichomonas gallinae .
An obstinate and often incurable disease of a horse's foot, characterized by separation of the horny portion and the development of fungoid growths; usually resulting from neglected thrush.
To affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.
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To infect or pollute; to corrupt.
To waste away, grow rusty, or be oxidized, as a mineral.
To be or become diseased, or as if diseased, with canker; to grow corrupt; to become venomous.
(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.
(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.
(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.
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Canker is a related term of enormity.
As nouns the difference between canker and enormity
is that canker is (botany) a plant disease marked by gradual decay while enormity is (uncountable) extreme wickedness, nefariousness.As a verb canker
is to affect as a canker; to eat away; to corrode; to consume.canker
English
Noun
- the cankers of envy and faction
- To put down Richard, that sweet lovely rose, / And plant this thorn, this canker , Bolingbroke.
Synonyms
* water canker, canker of the mouth, noma * (bird disease) avian trichomoniasis, roup * (hawk disease) frounceVerb
(en verb)- Still onward winds the dreary way; / I with it; for I long to prove / No lapse of moons can canker Love, / Whatever fickle tongues may say.
References
* ----enormity
English
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.