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Deformity
| Deformity Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Deformity?
[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
Synonyms | Synonyms for Deformity: disfiguration |
disfigurement |
malformation |
misshapenness
Related Terms | Find terms related to Deformity: 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
See Also | affliction |
appearance |
Arnold-Chiari deformity |
chicken breast |
clawfoot |
cleft foot |
clubfoot |
pes cavus |
pigeon breast |
plagiocephaly |
scaphocephaly |
talipes |
visual aspect
Deformity In Webster's Dictionary
\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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