About The Word Monstrosity

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Monstrosity

Monstrosity Meaning & Definition
Monstrosity Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Monstrosity?

[n] something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
[n] a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed

Synonyms | Synonyms for Monstrosity: freak | lusus naturae | monster

Related Terms | Find terms related to Monstrosity: 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

See Also | leviathan | malformation | miscreation | mutant | mutation | sport | variation

Monstrosity In Webster's Dictionary

\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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