mutility

M3U1T1I1L1I1T1Y4
/mjuːˈtɪlɪti/

noun

deformity, defectivity

Scrabble 13

Meanings

noun
  1. raredeformity, defectivity

    Like all other attachments in human life, love too is vulnerable to the onslaught of time and mutility.

    1983, The Indian Journal of English Studies, volume XXII, page 21
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    Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into an inappropriate movement which the conviction of its mutility cannot abolish.

    1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, page 217

    Clearly, significant scientific, sociological, and economic reasons suggest continuation of present efforts to establish and understand the role of disease (and other elements of natural mutility) in wild, and captive, estuarine and marine populations.

    1985, Transactions of the Fiftieth North American Wildlife and Natural Resources Conference, page 636

Origin

  1. Late Latinmutilitās
  2. Englishmutility

Borrowed from Late Latin mutilitās.

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APA

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