Dissymmetry
noun
noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 asymmetry countable, uncountable
"In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture."
- 2 lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something wordnet
- 3 chirality countable, obsolete, uncountable
Synonyms
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More examples"In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture."
Etymology
From dis- + symmetry.