Christian Ulstrup

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There are those who insist on using “enormity” only in cases of monstrous evil (“the enormity of her crimes”), which is more or less how the word arrived in the English language, and would have you use “enormousness” (or “largeness” or “immensity” or “abundance” or some such) in descriptions of size.
Christian Ulstrup
Enormity of our affair
Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style
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