Word Meanings - DISSYMMETRY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

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• ABSENCE
  1. A state of being absent or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; -- opposed to presence. Not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence. Phil. ii. 12. 2. Want; destitution; withdrawal. "In the absence of conventional law."
• ASYMMETRY
  Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• DEFECTUOUS
  Full of defects; imperfect. Barrow.
• DEFECT
  fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.
• DEFECTIOUS
  Having defects; imperfect. "Some one defectious piece." Sir P. Sidney.
• DEFECTIBLE
  Liable to defect; imperfect. "A defectible understanding." Jer. Taylor.
• SYMMETRY
  The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical. Note: Bilateral symmetry, or
• DEFECTION
  Act of abandoning a person or cause to which one is bound by allegiance or duty, or to which one has attached himself; desertion; failure in duty; a falling away; apostasy; backsliding. "Defection and falling away from God." Sir W. Raleigh. The
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• DISSYMMETRY
  Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
• PSEUDO-SYMMETRY
  A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
• INDEFECTIBILITY
  The quality of being indefectible. Barrow.
• INDEFECTIVE
  Not defective; perfect; complete. "Absolute, indefective obedience." South.