disformity

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word disformity. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word disformity, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say disformity in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word disformity you have here. The definition of the word disformity will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofdisformity, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.

English

Etymology

Compare deformity.

Noun

disformity (countable and uncountable, plural disformities)

  1. dissimilarity; nonresemblance; something that is not uniform.
    • 1705, Samuel Clarke, Natural Religion and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation (sermon)
      uniformity or diſformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies
    • 1973, Joseph Hayim Abraham, The Origins and Growth of Sociology:
      the only task of sociology, for it is as certain as anything in social life that disformities are as frequent, and perhaps as important, as the uniformities, and it is the task of sociology to be able to account for these
  2. deformity

Translations

References