enormity UK /ɪˈnɔːmɪti/US /ɪˈnoɹmɪti/ noun4 •Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty.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. •(nonstandard) Great size; enormousness, hugeness, immenseness.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. — 2008 •A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness.In 1650 Lieutenant William Jackson was in trouble for holding, among many other enormities, ‘community of all things’, including, apparently, wives. — 1972 •(no longer used) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality. formsenormities