Extent vs Enormity - What's the difference?
extent | enormity | Related terms |
A range of values or locations.
The space, area, volume, etc., to which something extends.
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(computing) A contiguous area of storage in a file system.
(uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness.
(countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness.
(uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness.
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Extent is a related term of enormity.
As nouns the difference between extent and enormity
is that extent is a range of values or locations while enormity is (uncountable) extreme wickedness, nefariousness.As an adjective extent
is (obsolete) extended.extent
English
Noun
(en noun)- The extent of his knowledge of the language is a few scattered words.
See also
* scope * ("extent" on Wikipedia)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.