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Monstrosity definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

MONSTROS'ITY, n. The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature.
We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son and trains him up into a beast.
1. An unnatural production; that which is monstrous.
Fabri arranges distortions, gibbosities, tumors, etc. in the class of morbific monstrosities.
A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed [syn: freak, monster, monstrosity, lusus naturae]
2: something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 15th century 1. a. a malformation of a plant or animal b. something deviating from the normal ; freak 2. the quality or state of being monstrous 3. a. an object of great and often frightening size, force, or complexity b. an excessively bad or shocking example

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a huge or outrageous thing. 2 monstrousness. 3 = MONSTER 3. Etymology: LL monstrositas (as MONSTROUS)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Monstrosity 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. ).

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(monstrosities) If you describe something, especially something large, as a monstrosity, you mean that you think it is extremely ugly. Most of the older buildings have been torn down and replaced by modern monstrosities. N-COUNT [disapproval]

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Monstrousness. 2. Prodigy, monster.

Moby Thesaurus

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