enormity

The turning point for me was a man who started chatting to me and appeared oblivious to the enormity of the situation.

He said the enormity of his discovery had yet to hit home.

But it wasn’t just the enormity of the theater screen that dazzled me, it was the movie itself.

"I don't think I understood the enormity of what we were doing at the time," Staples said.

It wasn’t until she came up the 210 Freeway that she saw the towering flames and began to understand the enormity of what had happened.