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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 Date: 1845 the absence of or the lack of symmetry • dissymmetric adjective

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a lack of symmetry. b an instance of this. 2 symmetry as of mirror images or the left and right hands (esp. of crystals with two corresponding forms). Derivatives: dissymmetrical adj.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Dissymmetry Dis*sym"me*try, n. [Pref. dis- + symmetry.] Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.