Enormity means depraved abnormality.

Hi Mike:

Sorry to nitpick right back, old buddy ;-)

Websters says (I'm too lazy to find a magnifying glass and look it up in my two
volume OED):

"Enormity, quality of being enormous; great wickedness; atrocity."

The first definition is much more common in American-English usage. That is, it
_is_ a synonym for "enormousness." Your definition is correct, of course, if
less common.

Actually, in this case, both definitions are applicable.

Yes, I was an English major in an earlier life. ;-)
Peace,
Rod Mollise
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