enormity (noun) - something bad or wrong on a massive scale; an immensity of evil; something huge or extreme [ih-nawr-mi-tee]
BREAKDOWN: E- (out of) + NORM- (rule, norm) + -ITY (quality)
enormous means extremely great or large in terms of size, amount, or extent
enormousness is the quality of being extremely large
“Death is not only an unusually severe punishment, unusual in its pain, in its finality and in its enormity, but is serves no penal purpose more effectively than a less severe punishment.” —William J. Brennan
