The people of this Indus Valley civilization did not build massive monuments like their contemporaries, nor did they bury riches among their dead in golden tombs. There were no mummies, no emperors, and no violent wars or bloody battles in their territory.
enormity. n, pl-ties. 1. the quality or character of being outrageous; extreme wickedness. 2. an act of great wickedness; atrocity. 3. vastness of size or extent.
Something that's enormous can be good â a huge paycheck! â or bad, such as a tumor. But when it comes to enormity, some word lovers are up in arms. The word originally meant a crime, so some people think it should only be used to describe wickedness or lack of morals. Others can't resist the word's similarity to enormous and apply it to anything vast, positive or negative.