'Monstrosity' definitions:
Definition of 'monstrosity'
(from WordNet)
noun
A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed [syn: freak, monster, monstrosity, lusus naturae]
noun
Something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
Definition of 'Monstrosity'
From: GCIDE
- Monstrosity \Mon*stros"i*ty\ (m[o^]n*str[o^]s"[i^]*t[y^]), n.; pl. Monstrosities (m[o^]n*str[o^]s"[i^]*t[i^]z). [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. [1913 Webster]
- A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. --Adanson (Trans.). [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'monstrosity'
From: 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