All 3 Uses of
enormity
in
Atlas Shrugged
- He was seeing the enormity of the smallness of the enemy who was destroying the world.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- "Ragnar Danneskjold …." said Rearden, as if he were seeing the whole of the past decade, as if he were looking at the enormity of a crime spread through ten years and held within two words.†
Chpt 2.7
- With an awed contempt-awed by the enormity of the sight-she wondered what inner degradation those men had to reach in order to arrive at a level of self-deception where they would seek the extorted approval of an unwilling victim as the moral sanction they needed, they who thought that they were merely deceiving the world.†
Chpt 3.3
Definition:
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(enormity as in: enormity of the crime) extreme wickedness
or more rarely (and considered incorrect by many): enormousness (largeness)