Enormity vs Abomination - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.
(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.
(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.
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An abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.
The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing.
(obsolete) A state that excites detestation or abhorrence; pollution.
That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones.
* Antony, most large in his abominations . Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III-vi
As nouns the difference between enormity and abomination
is that enormity is extreme wickedness, nefariousness while abomination is an abominable act; a disgusting vice; a despicable habit.enormity
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(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.