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[syn: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Asymmetry \A*sym"me*try\, n. [Gr. ?; 'a priv. + ? symmetry.]
1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a
thing, esp. lack of bilateral symmetry.
[1913 Webster]
2. (Math.) Incommensurability. [Obs.] --Barrow.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
asymmetry
n 1: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry,
dissymmetry, imbalance] [ant: balance,
correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
64 Moby Thesaurus words for "asymmetry":
ambiguity, ambivalence, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antinomy,
buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, detorsion, deviation,
difference, disequilibrium, disparity, disproportion,
disproportionateness, distortion, equivocality, gnarl, heresy,
heterodoxy, heterogeneity, imbalance, inadequacy, incoherence,
incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency,
inconsonance, inequality, inequity, injustice, insufficiency,
irreconcilability, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness,
nonconformability, nonconformity, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance,
oxymoron, paradox, quirk, screw, self-contradiction, shortcoming,
torsion, tortuosity, turn, twist, unbalance, unconformability,
unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unorthodoxy,
unsymmetry, warp, wrench, wrest, wring