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Something hideous or frightful
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monstrosity
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Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A plant or animal showing abnormal development or deformity. 2 A monstrous thing, person or act. 3 The state of being monstrous.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Monstrosity may refer to: Monstrosity (band) , a death metal band from Florida Monstrosity (film) , a science fiction film from 1964 Monstrosity! , a 1988 album by the California State University, Los Angeles Jazz Ensemble
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1550s, "abnormality of growth," from Late Latin monstrositas "strangeness," from Latin monstrosus , a collateral form of monstruosus (source of French monstruosité ); see monster . Earlier form was monstruosity (c.1400). Sense of "quality of being monstrous" ...
Usage examples of monstrosity.
Today the main display was a diorama of the center of the Galaxy, with a brilliant pinpoint that must be Chandra itself, surrounded by an accretion disc and other astrophysical monstrosities.
It is like strabismus, chloroform, lithotrity, a heap of monstrosities that the Government ought to prohibit.
Grudgingly Parral had housed Sten and his mercenaries in one of those mansions, a sprawling marble monstrosity the mercs were happily turning into a cross between a barracks and a bordello.
Biddenden Maids were pygopagous twins, a study of the histories of other recorded cases of this monstrosity serves to demonstrate many common characters.
It is that in all the illustrations, from the simplicity of Athens, through the artificiality of Louis XIV and the monstrosities of Elizabeth, down to the undescribed modistic inventions of the first McKinley, there is discoverable a radical and primitive law of beauty.
He vented a bestial growl and came off the ground in a frenzied rush, hurtling at the demented monstrosity responsible for the death of his beloved.
Cosentino mentions a case of the absence of liquor amnii associated with a fetal monstrosity.
He left the room, which was full of thoughts of contagion and monstrosity and all kinds of panicked jumble, through the zigzag of a wall, and worked his way into the next compartment.
Leng, wherever in space or time it might brood, was not a region I would care to be in or near, nor did I relish the proximity of a world that had ever bred such ambiguous and Archaean monstrosities as those Lake had just mentioned.
In monstrosities and dermoid cysts, for example, we seem to catch forbidden sight of the secret work-room of Nature, and drag out into the light the evidences of her clumsiness, and proofs of her lapses of skill,--evidences and proofs, moreover, that tell us much of the methods and means used by the vital artisan of Life,--the loom, and even the silent weaver at work upon the mysterious garment of corporeality.
And now Cloud, as he studied through his almost opaque defenses that indescribably ravening fireball, that esuriently rapacious monstrosity which might very well have come from the deepest pit of the hottest hell of mythology, felt strongly inclined to agree with Carlowitz.
Cloud, as he studied through his almost opaque defenses that indescribably ravening fireball, that esuriently rapacious monstrosity which might very well have come from the deepest pit of the hottest hell of mythology, felt strongly inclined to agree with Carlowitz.
I do not think I can bear to laugh and make merry, living and loving while Hyacinthe raises wind and wave, gazes into a mirror and waits for time to make a monstrosity of him.
He bent over and began transferring equipment from a twentieth-century suitcase to a Gladstonian monstrosity of flowered cloth.
And then something from a Jules Verne nightmare stepped in front of her, a green-garbed monstrosity with huge bug eyes and a hoglike snout.