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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

ASYM'METRY, n. [Gr. priv. symmetry, of with, and to measure.]
The want of proportion between the parts of a thing. It is also used in mathematics for incommensurability, when between two quantities there is no common measure.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance] [ant: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry]

Merriam Webster's

noun see asymmetrical

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. lack of symmetry. Derivatives: asymmetric adj. asymmetrical adj. asymmetrically adv. Etymology: Gk asummetria (as A-(1), SYMMETRY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Asymmetry A*sym"me*try, n. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? symmetry.] 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry. 2. (Math.) Incommensurability. [Obs.] --Barrow.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(asymmetries) Asymmetry is the appearance that something has when its two sides or halves are different in shape, size, or style. ...the asymmetry of Van de Velde's designs of this period. ? symmetry N-VAR

Moby Thesaurus

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, wring