Dissymmetry
noun ·4 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 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
Example
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.
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