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What is the noun for enormity?

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enormity
  1. (uncountable) Extreme wickedness, nefariousness, cruelty. [from 15th c.]
  2. (countable) An act of extreme evil or wickedness. [from 15th c.]
  3. (uncountable) Hugeness, enormousness, immenseness. [from 18th c.]
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  5. Examples:
    1. “Committing plagiarism is an enormity that undermines one's integrity and academic honesty.”
      “The enormity of the Pacific Ocean is truly awe-inspiring.”
      “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.”
enormousness
  1. Great size or magnitude.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “He had not realized the enormousness of the task of putting a fellow-man out of the world.”
      “The mansion itself was natural wood and only had one level to it, a typical Japanese house except for its enormousness.”
      “The shark battled for 40 minutes before the angler saw its enormousness.”
enormities
  1. plural of enormity
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  3. Examples:
    1. “There is no doubt that the person to be tried committed criminal enormities.”
      “Such bloodstained enormities pass unnoticed now in a media pummelled into numbness by a government at last bereft of any moral sense or shame.”
      “Before the human and financial enormities of that conflict, leaders and citizens assumed that wars were what countries did.”
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