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Curmudgeons' CornerGuestmudgeon Jim Ross is enormously tired of enormity
Indeed, it refers to "extreme or monstrous wickedness". Calling the tsunami disaster one of "enormity" (heard on NPR) is not exactly good usage. The OED says:
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