Meaning of MONSTROSITY
| Pronunciation: | | mân'strâsitee
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- [n] something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
- [n] a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
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| | Synonyms: | | freak, lusus naturae, monster |
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| | See Also: | | leviathan, malformation, miscreation, mutant, mutation, sport, variation | |
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| | Definition: | | Monstrosity
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Mon*stros"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Monstrosities}. [Cf. F.
monstruosit['e]. See {Monstrous}.]
The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of
nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. --South.
A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the
immutability of a species. --Adanson
(Trans. ).
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| | Related Terms: | | aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, abortion, absurdity, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, anticness, awfulness, baboon, bag, barbarity, bizarreness, bizarrerie, blemish, blot, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot, crookback, curiousness, defacement, deformation, deformity, derangement, deviation, difference, disfigurement, divergence, dog, dreadfulness, eccentricity, enormity, enormousness, erraticism, eyesore, fantasticality, fiendishness, flatfoot, freak, freak of nature, freakishness, fright, frightfulness, gargoyle, ghoulishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hag, harelip, harridan, heinousness, hellishness, heteromorphism, hideousness, horribleness, horridness, horror, hugeness, humpback, hunchback, immensity, inferiority, irregularity, knock-knee, kyphosis, lordosis, malconformation, malformation, mess, miscreation, misproportion, misshape, monster, monstrousness, mutilation, no beauty, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, prodigiousness, quaintness, queerness, scarecrow, sight, singularity, splayfoot, strangeness, stupendousness, subnormality, superiority, swayback, talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, tremendousness, truncation, ugly duckling, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, valgus, vastness, weirdness, witch, wryneck |
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