Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Immensity, magnitude; atrociousness; as, the enormity of a disaster; the state or quality of exceeding a measure or rule, or of being immoderate, monstrous, or outrageous. 2. (n.) That which is enormous; especially, an exceeding offense against order, right, or decency; an atrocious crime; flagitious villainy; an atrocity. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia ENORMITY e-nor'-mi-ti: The marginal rendering in the King James Version of Hosea 6:9 for "lewdness," and in the Revised Version (British and American) of Leviticus 18:17; Leviticus 19:29; Leviticus 20:14 for "wickedness." In each case it is the translation of zimmah, meaning originally, "thought" or "plot," mostly in a bad sense, lewdness, wickedness; in Leviticus it is unnatural wickedness-incest.

Multi-Version Concordance Enormity (2 Occurrences) Jeremiah 13:27 I have seen thy adulteries, and thy neighings, the enormity of thy lewdness, and thy abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe to thee O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be? (WBS) Hosea 6:9 And as troops of robbers wait for a man, so the company of priests murder in the way toward Shechem; yea, they have committed lewdness. (See JPS)