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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun asymmetry has 1 sense
- asymmetry(n = noun.attribute) dissymmetry, imbalance - (mathematics) a lack of symmetry; Array is a kind of spatial property, spatiality
has particulars: geometrical irregularity, irregularity, lopsidedness, skewness, radial asymmetry, handedness, laterality, footedness, eyedness
Derived forms adjective asymmetric1, adjective asymmetrical1
Antonym: symmetry
CIDE DICTIONARY
asymmetry, n. [Gr. ; 'a priv. + symmetry.].
- Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. lack of bilateral symmetry. [1913 Webster]
- Incommensurability. Barrow. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
asymmetry, n. lack of symmetry.
Derivative
asymmetric adj. asymmetrical adj. asymmetrically adv.
Etymology
Gk asummetria (as A-(1), SYMMETRY)
THESAURUS
asymmetry
ambiguity, ambivalence, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antinomy, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, detorsion, deviation, difference, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion, disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, gnarl, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, imbalance, inadequacy, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, nonconformability, nonconformity, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, oxymoron, paradox, quirk, screw, self-contradiction, shortcoming, torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unbalance, unconformability, unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unorthodoxy, unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wringROGET THESAURUS
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Distortion
N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.
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