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Answer for the clue "Lack of proportion ", 9 letters:
imbalance

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Word definitions for imbalance in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN gender ▪ Egalitarian feminist psychologists draw on both feminist and psychological criticisms of gender imbalance among psychologists. ▪ This could be because fewer girls are taught chess, and those who play are put ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1895, from im- "not" + balance (n.).

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The property of not being in balance.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state of disequilibrium (as may occur in cases of inner ear disease) [syn: instability , unbalance ] [ant: balance ] (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry ] [ant: symmetry ]

Usage examples of imbalance.

They must be able to detect a growing imbalance, and I must be the cause.

Mach had told him briefly of the discovery by Stile, his father, that their exchange was causing a dangerous imbalance, so they had to spend more time in their own frames.

Stile noted that the imbalance is abating not, and knew that either the boys had exchanged not, or that other had exchanged.

This matter must be settled, and the imbalance between frames corrected, lest great harm come to all.

Or at least agree to equal time in Proton, so the imbalance can be limited.

Protonite in the science frame generated an imbalance that threatened to tear the fabric that separated them and destroy both.

But if that line ceases to exist, the channel by which you and Mach communicate and exchange places will be gone, and all that you contemplate will end, and my chance to rectify the accumulated imbalance will abort.

I understand it, the frames must either be completely separated, with no interaction between them, or completely overlapped, so that any imbalance corrects instantly.

That imbalance we wish to redress, drawing on, among others, the theorists I just mentioned.

So in the second battle here at the north, like the first at the south, the imbalance between the two fleets was staggering, and Admiral Ozawa knew as day broke on 25 October that he, too, was engaged in a suicide mission.

For him not to have spotted such a gross imbalance would have been like - well, like forgetting to breathe.

That was going to happen even inside the cities she thought, and wondered how that would influence future society, given that there was already an imbalance because of more parents selecting boys rather than girls.

He tried not to shudder, even as the faint images of the grove and the distant forest slipped into his thoughts with the contrast between the balanced forces of the forest, always changing, but always balanced, and the great frozen imbalance beneath him, indeed beneath much of the southern part of the Grass Hills.

The impression of balance seethed even more strongly around them, as did an ugly sense of imbalance that tilted or loomed beyond the forest.

Whatever the reason, the old white mages had used the artificial imbalance between those top two layers as a power source-like an electric current, if you will.