enormity
noun/ɪˈnɔːrmɪti/
Frequency rank: #17,410 most common English word
Meaning
The great or extreme scale of something, especially something serious or terrible.
Example sentence
The survivors stood in silence as they began to grasp the enormity of the disaster.
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