English Dictionary

enormity

IPA（発音記号）

/ɪˈnɔːmɪti/

名詞

可算名詞 廃用 不可算名詞 禁用 時々

(obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality. / (uncountable) Deviation from moral normality; extreme wickedness, nefariousness, or cruelty.

日本語の意味

常軌を逸した状態や、規範からの逸脱、異常性。 / 道徳的な常軌からの逸脱、極度の邪悪さや残虐さを示す状態。

In older usage, writers employed 'enormity' to indicate a slight deviation from customary behavior rather than the grave atrocity the term implies today.

古い用法では、作家たちはその語を、今日その表現が示すような重大な凶悪さではなく、通常の行動からの軽い逸脱を示すために用いていた。

意味（1）

(obsolete) Deviation from what is normal or standard; irregularity, abnormality.

意味（2）

(uncountable) 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.

意味（3）

(countable) A breach of law or morality; a transgression, an act of evil or wickedness.

Yet she appeared confident in innocence, and did not tremble, although gazed on and execrated by thousands; for all the kindness which her beauty might otherwise have excited, was obliterated in the minds of the spectators by the imagination of the enormity she was supposed to have committed.

意味（4）

(uncountable, sometimes proscribed) 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.

enormities （ plural ）