enormity

I'll wait...What makes the DDG !bang system awesome is its enormity.

A few months after I moved here the enormity of the situation hit me and I nearly cried.

The NFL, in contrast -- for all its seeming enormity and influence -- is about a $8B business, gross.

There's almost no way to convey the sheer enormity of it without actually physically being there.

What wasnt revealed until now, however, was the enormity of this ongoing domestic spying program.

If either side fails to inform the jury of the enormity or ramifications of their decision, it is the fault of that side.

Seems like, with the cost of living in the valley and the dramatic shortage of talent, and the volume and enormity of ideas, they'd have the most to gain.

That -should- push you into making a plan immediately, but the whole enormity of the situation causes a panic reaction that prevents you from thinking rationally about the plan to start with.

* Drowning new management: if senior management has recently undergone a turnover, the new kids in charge may be drinking from the firehose and unable to grasp the enormity of what you're saying.

Some hold that enormousness is the correct word in that sense and that enormity can only mean outrageousness or atrociousness: The enormity of his offenses appalled the public.

Enormity has been in frequent and continuous use in the sense immensity since the 18th century: The enormity of the task was overwhelming.