Meaning of DEFORMITY
| Pronunciation: | | di'formitee
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- [n] an appearance that has been spoiled or is misshapen; "there were distinguishing disfigurements on the suspect's back"; "suffering from facial disfiguration"
- [n] an affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed
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| | Synonyms: | | disfiguration, disfigurement, malformation, misshapenness |
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| | See Also: | | affliction, appearance, Arnold-Chiari deformity, chicken breast, clawfoot, cleft foot, clubfoot, pes cavus, pigeon breast, plagiocephaly, scaphocephaly, talipes, visual aspect | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \De*form"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Deformities}. [L. deformitas,
fr. deformis: cf. OF. deformet['e], deformit['e], F.
difformit['e]. See {Deform}, v. & a., and cf. {Disformity}.]
1. The state of being deformed; want of proper form or
symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion;
irregularity of shape or features; ugliness.
To make an envious mountain on my back, Where sits
deformity to mock my body. --Shak.
2. Anything that destroys beauty, grace, or propriety;
irregularity; absurdity; gross deviation from order or the
established laws of propriety; as, deformity in an
edifice; deformity of character.
Confounded, that her Maker's eyes Should look so
near upon her foul deformities. --Milton.
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| | Related Terms: | | aberration, abnormality, absurdity, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, allergic disease, allergy, amputee, anticness, atrophy, awfulness, bacterial disease, birth defect, birthmark, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blackhead, bleb, blemish, blight, blister, bowlegs, bulla, camelback, cardiovascular disease, check, chronic disease, cicatrix, circulatory disease, cleft palate, clubfoot, comedo, complaint, complication, condition, congenital defect, crack, crater, craze, cripple, crookback, curiousness, damage, defacement, defect, defective, deficiency disease, deformation, degenerative disease, disability, disease, disfiguration, disfigurement, disorder, distemper, distortion, dreadfulness, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, fantasticality, fault, flatfoot, flaw, forbiddingness, freakishness, freckle, frightfulness, functional disease, fungus disease, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, ghastliness, grisliness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, gruesomeness, handicap, handicapped person, harelip, hemangioma, hereditary disease, hickey, hideousness, horribleness, horridness, humpback, hunchback, iatrogenic disease, idiot, illness, imbecile, impairment, incapable, indisposition, infectious disease, infirmity, injury, irregularity, keloid, kink, knock-knee, kyphosis, lentigo, loathsomeness, lordosis, malady, malaise, malconformation, malformation, milium, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, mole, monstrosity, monstrousness, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, mutilation, needle scar, neurological disease, nevus, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddity, offensiveness, organic disease, outlandishness, pandemic disease, paralytic, paraplegic, pathological condition, pathology, peculiarity, pimple, pit, plant disease, pock, pockmark, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, pustule, quadriplegic, quaintness, queerness, repugnantness, repulsiveness, respiratory disease, rift, rockiness, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, secondary disease, seediness, sickishness, sickness, signs, singularity, splayfoot, split, strangeness, strawberry mark, sty, swayback, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, talipes, teratism, teratology, terribleness, the crippled, the handicapped, the pip, torticollis, track, truncation, twist, unnaturalness, urogenital disease, valgus, verruca, vesicle, virus disease, wale, warp, wart, wasting disease, weal, weirdness, welt, wen, whitehead, worm disease, wryneck |
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