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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. (mathematics) a lack of symmetry;
[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