Antonyms for deformity
Grammar : Noun |
Spell : dih-fawr-mi-tee |
Phonetic Transcription : dɪˈfɔr mɪ ti |
Definition of deformity
Origin :- early 15c., diformyte, from Old French deformité "deformity, disfigurement," from Latin deformitatem (nominative deformitas) "ugliness," from deformis "misformed, misshapen," from deformare (see deform).
- noun disfigurement, distortion
- Pericles was usually represented with a helmet, to cover the deformity in his skull.
- Extract from : « Philothea » by Lydia Maria Child
- Hitherto Meg's experience had been that it was a thing to be slurred over, like a deformity.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
- And if this is true, Love is the love of beauty and not of deformity?
- Extract from : « Symposium » by Plato
- He referred to the fact that they are subject to hardly any deformity.
- Extract from : « Aztec Land » by Maturin M. Ballou
- When you have done this the deformity will indicate the location of the fracture.
- Extract from : « Boy Scouts Handbook » by Boy Scouts of America
- Then I made a jest of a deformity, and the joke carried me too far.
- Extract from : « Despair's Last Journey » by David Christie Murray
- To this he refers our impressions of beauty and deformity, vice and virtue.
- Extract from : « The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings » by John Abercrombie
- The thing was hardly a deformity; yet I cannot tell you what a living nightmare it was to me.
- Extract from : « The Wisdom of Father Brown » by G. K. Chesterton
- You get deformity, if not complete helplessness and annihilation.
- Extract from : « Adventures in the Arts » by Marsden Hartley
- Almost any deformity or abnormality these days is called mutantism.
- Extract from : « The Status Civilization » by Robert Sheckley
Synonyms for deformity
- aberration
- abnormality
- asymmetry
- buckle
- contortion
- corruption
- crookedness
- damage
- defacement
- defect
- depravity
- evil
- grossness
- hideousness
- impairment
- injury
- irregularity
- knot
- malconformation
- malformation
- misproportion
- misshape
- misshapenness
- repulsiveness
- ugliness
- unattractiveness
- unnaturalness
- unsightliness
- warp
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