I always catch on misuse of enormity
It's now so widespread the misuse has gained despairing acceptance, as with "infer" for "imply"... but that doesn't make it any less wince-inducing.
("ex normal" doesn't clearly mean "evil"/"sinful", and Latin already had it as "big".)
I think neural networks are enormous, why is that misuse?
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The original meanings that enormity carried related to great wickedness, and some assert that enormity should today only be used with such meanings, and that enormousness is the proper word to use to mean "large size." Despite these claims, enormity frequently refers to large size, either literal or figurative, though it usually suggests something so large as to seem overwhelming.
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- great magnitude/size/scale of something - wickedness, evil, atrocity
Purists insist on the second meaning only, and will perhaps suggest you swap with ‘enormousness’ instead.
Personally, I don’t care and it’s nothing I would find “wince-inducing”. Just thought I’d give an answer to your question :)
> Can you explain for the rest of us the problem with this usage?