Enormity vs Monstrousness - What's the difference?
enormity | monstrousness | Synonyms |
(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:
(uncountable) The state or condition of being monstrous.
(countable) Something monstrous.
Enormity is a synonym of monstrousness.
In uncountable|lang=en terms the difference between enormity and monstrousness
is that enormity is (uncountable) hugeness, enormousness, immenseness while monstrousness is (uncountable) the state or condition of being monstrous.In countable|lang=en terms the difference between enormity and monstrousness
is that enormity is (countable) an act of extreme evil or wickedness while monstrousness is (countable) something monstrous.As nouns the difference between enormity and monstrousness
is that enormity is (uncountable) extreme wickedness, nefariousness while monstrousness is (uncountable) the state or condition of being monstrous.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.