difformity

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noun

irregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity

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ununiformity
OriginMiddle French difformité →
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Meanings

noundifformity (plural difformities)

plural difformities

  1. obsoleteirregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity

    For whilst they murmur against the present disposure of things, regulating determined realities unto their private optations, they rest not in their established natures, but unwishing their unalterable verities, do tacitly desire in them a difformity from the primitive rule

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

    Synonyms: ununiformity

Synonyms & antonyms

nounirregularity or diversity of form; lack of uniformity

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ununiformity

Origin

  1. Middle Frenchdifformité
  2. Englishdifformity

From Middle French difformité. See difform, deformity.

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APA

difformity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/difformity

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Chicago

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