monstrosityn.

Brit.

/mɒnˈstrɒsᵻti/, U.S.

/mɑnzˈtrɑsədi/,

/mɑnˈstrɑsədi/

Forms: 1500s–1600s monstrositie, 1600s– monstrosity.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin monstrositas.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin monstrositas condition of being monstrous or prodigious (5th cent.) < classical Latin monstrōsus monstrous adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French monstrosité abnormal size (1572), Italian mostrosita (16th cent.; now rare or obsolete). Compare earlier monstruosity n.

a. An animal or plant, or (occasionally) an organ or part, that is abnormally developed or grossly malformed. Also: an instance of abnormal development. Cf. monster n. 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > part or organ

forshapingc1320

monstrosity1555

misprision1650

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > types of growth

monstruosity1402

monstrosity1555

accretion1615

misgrowth1648

monstruousness1653

miscreance1658

homonomya1682

agenesis1827

hypertrophy1834

auxesis1842

overgrowth1844

neoplasia1871

ingrowth1877

concrescence1878

accrementition1879

neogenesis1884

geomalism1885

giantism1885

geomaly1889

merisis1940

1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bii The monstrositie growth owt of the body.

1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. ii. sig. Xxxx4 Amongst these there are some Rarities, if not Monstrosities, in Nature.

1766 Compl. Farmer at Smut Wolfius was of opinion that the smut of corn proceeds from a monstrosity of the embryo.

1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. ii. 31 The person to whom this monstrosity belonged, lived to near fourteen years of age.

1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species ii. 44 By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure..either injurious to or not useful to the species.

1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 41 It is because she refuses to propagate monstrosities that hybrids are sterile.

1903 H. V. Esmond When we were Twenty-one i. 6 If anybody saw you glaring at me like that, they'd be bound to think I was a monstrosity out of a show.

1940 R. Goldschmidt Material Basis Evol. 326 For a long time the phenomenon of homoeosis..has been known as an occasional monstrosity in arthropods... The classical example is the regeneration of an antenna after removal of the eyestalk in Decapods.

1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xi. 177 Monstrosities and malformations such as anencephaly and spina bifida are common.

b. The condition or fact of being abnormally developed or grossly malformed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun]

crookedness1398

monstruosity1402

deformity1413

misfashioning1469

misfigurec1480

counterfeiturec1500

monstrosity1616

pravity1647

monstruousness1653

malformation1769

misformation1822

dysmorphia1848

misshape1867

aplasia1885

nanity1892

the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > abnormally-formed fetus > condition

monstrosity1616

the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > types of growth > abnormal or excessive development > condition of being abnormally developed

monstrosity1616

1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) iv. 35 Which glasse (it seemd) was caste in Alchymie, to amplifye thinges to monstrositie.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Monstrosity,..monstrousness.

1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus xv. 56 in A. Pope Wks. II ‘Monstrosity could not incapacitate from Marriage,’ witness the Case of Hermaphrodites.

1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ix. 389 The optic structure is never single and median except by monstrosity.

1971 Ann. Human Genetics 34 299 This rise and fall in the incidence of hydrocephalus is clearly very different in timing from the changes in spina bifida and monstrosity.

1993 Jrnl. Postgraduate Med. 39 99 On examination one of the [conjoined] twins had gross monstrosity and was threatening the survival of the better twin.

a. Something repulsively unnatural, an abomination; a thing which is outrageously or offensively wrong.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [noun]

monstruosity1402

grievoustyc1410

outrageousnessc1450

enormityc1480

atrocity1534

malignitya1535

monstruousness1545

heinousness1563

monstrousness1574

ugliness1601

enormousnessa1631

monstrosity1639

enormance1682

flagrancy1714

atrociousness1731

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of

follyc1300

absurditya1525

mumpsimus1531

trim-tram1533

foppery1546

ridicle1570

fangle1583

delirium1599

monstruosity1601

adox1606

absurd1610

extravagancy1625

incongruitya1626

monstrosity1639

extravagant1644

extravagance1650

ridiculea1658

fadoodlea1670

ridiculous1674

irrationalitya1680

ridiculosity1773

whimsy-whamsy1807

absurdism1815

nonsensity1834

nonsensical1842

nonsensicalitya1850

fandango1856

fandangle1880

bollock1919

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural

unkindnessc1390

unnaturalness?a1425

monstrosity1639

prodigiousness1649

preternaturality1666

preternaturalness1695

abnormity1724

unnaturalism1754

unnaturality1819

non-naturality1827

preternaturalism1834

non-naturalness1878

1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxxiv. 89 The body of their State being a very monstrosity, and a grievance of mankind.

1651 H. Binning Serm. (1847) 530 What a monstrosity is it for one member to seek its own things..as if it were a distinct body.

1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 184 This numerous piece of Monstrosity (the Multitude).

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 257 We sometimes read..of Monstrous Births, but we may often see a greater Monstrosity in Educations.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 48 Those few defects,..monstrositys or whatever you please to call them, which are to be found in the world, and seem to disfigure the face of nature.

1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 99/1 England..offers precisely the elements..in which such moon-calves and monstrosities are best generated.

1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 113 Such a monstrosity [sc. as the ‘Lancaster gun’] would have been buried soon after its birth.

1886 C. A. Briggs Messianic Prophecy Pref. 11 The word Jehovah..is a linguistic monstrosity.

1950 W. J. M. Mackenzie in G. F. M. Campion Brit. Govt. since 1918 83 A branch or a department may be a theoretical monstrosity and yet be a ‘happy ship’.

1993 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Oct. a. 16/2 What was conceived in Jackson Hole as a market-oriented approach has been born as a bureaucratic monstrosity.

b. The condition or fact of being repulsively unnatural or outrageously or offensively wrong.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun]

wantonnessc1405

absurdity1529

monstruousness1545

impertinency1573

ridiculousness1573

monstrousness1574

absurd1581

absurdness1582

incongruity1597

fancy1598

delirium1599

monstruosity1604

absurdum1606

foppishness1611

impertinence1616

nonsense1630

impertinentness1645

irrationality1647

monstrosity1651

nonsensicality1652

ridicule1668

ridicule1672

nonsensicalness1674

maggotry1706

preposterousness1727

zanyship1766

ridiculosity1773

drollness1823

stultification1832

nonsensity1834

farcicality1849

cockeyedness1858

1651 Last Will & Test. James Hynd 5 If Gallantry may mitigate Guilt, I suppose the manner of my Projections and Actions..may somewhat extenuate the monstrositie of my Crimes.

1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 507 Sin being a brat of hell, comes not to its full complexion and monstrosity, till it be sent back to the place it came from.

1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 246 The statement of his contemporary biographer confuted itself by its monstrosity.

1856 F. J. A. Hort Coleridge in Cambr. Ess. 327 The moral monstrosity of supposing that God can have given us lying faculties.

1902 A. B. Davidson Called of God xi. 282 To be lost..does not imply any uncommonness of vice, or monstrosity of wickedness.

1957 T. Hughes Famous Poet in Hawk in Rain 11 How difficult it is to define just what Amounts to monstrosity in that Very ordinary appearance.

1992 I. Banks Crow Road xi. 260 What, I thought? Had my tone of reason in the face of monstrosity finally registered?

3. = monster n. 1a. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun]

fiend-scatheOE

beastc1300

monsterc1375

monstruosity1601

monstrosity1643

1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §1 The Multitude..confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious then Hydra.

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiv. 128 Education..can lick us into shapes beyond the monstrosities of those of Africa.

1849 J. R. Planché Seven Champions ii. i, in Extravaganzas (1879) III. 341 Herdsmen: But the Sultan himself of the Dragon's in fear—Charley: Well! I'm happy to say that I know some one here, Who has no dread of any monstrosity living.

1896 A. Lillie Worship Satan Mod. France (ed. 2) Pref. 17 Where was the logic of the pact in blood with a goat-headed monstrosity?

1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xx. 219 I was attacked by wild beasts; strange, uncouth monstrosities that leaped upon me in the dark.

1990 J. S. Downard in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (rev. ed.) 318 Jewish mysticism posits a..Frankensteinian monstrosity called the Golem.

4. Something aesthetically displeasing, esp. an ugly, oversized, or inappropriate building or structure.

ΚΠ

1856 Illustr. London News 11 Oct. 359/1 Trafalgar-square, that place of monstrosities and hideosities,..is a spot which it is scarcely possible for an educated Englishman to pass without a feeling of shame or disgust.

1880 Mind 5 456 The huge marble domes of Agra and Delhi, the stucco monstrosities of..Lucknow.

1909 J. Miller Poems I. 230 While nearly every city in the Union had more or less of these monstrosities [sc. equestrian statues] I had seen but one little figure in honor of woman.

1930 E. Blunden in Time & Tide 3 Jan. 16 The new painters, with their endeavours to outmonster the monstrosities of uninspired futurists.

1952 A. Christie They do it with Mirrors iii. 24 ‘It's pretty ghastly, really,’ said Gina cheerfully. ‘A sort of Gothic monstrosity.’

1991 M. Gray First Fifty (BNC) 109 Why a laird would build such a strange, suburban, concrete monstrosity in a remote and beautiful glen is open to debate.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	monstrosity
释义	monstrosityn. Brit. /mɒnˈstrɒsᵻti/, U.S. /mɑnzˈtrɑsədi/, /mɑnˈstrɑsədi/ Forms: 1500s–1600s monstrositie, 1600s– monstrosity. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin monstrositas. Etymology: < post-classical Latin monstrositas condition of being monstrous or prodigious (5th cent.) < classical Latin monstrōsus monstrous adj. + -tās (see -ty suffix¹; compare -ity suffix). Compare Middle French monstrosité abnormal size (1572), Italian mostrosita (16th cent.; now rare or obsolete). Compare earlier monstruosity n. 1. a. An animal or plant, or (occasionally) an organ or part, that is abnormally developed or grossly malformed. Also: an instance of abnormal development. Cf. monster n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > part or organ forshapingc1320 monstrosity1555 misprision1650 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > types of growth monstruosity1402 monstrosity1555 accretion1615 misgrowth1648 monstruousness1653 miscreance1658 homonomya1682 agenesis1827 hypertrophy1834 auxesis1842 overgrowth1844 neoplasia1871 ingrowth1877 concrescence1878 accrementition1879 neogenesis1884 geomalism1885 giantism1885 geomaly1889 merisis1940 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. bii The monstrositie growth owt of the body. 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iv. ii. sig. Xxxx4 Amongst these there are some Rarities, if not Monstrosities, in Nature. 1766 Compl. Farmer at Smut Wolfius was of opinion that the smut of corn proceeds from a monstrosity of the embryo. 1793 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. ii. 31 The person to whom this monstrosity belonged, lived to near fourteen years of age. 1859 C. Darwin Origin of Species ii. 44 By a monstrosity I presume is meant some considerable deviation of structure..either injurious to or not useful to the species. 1884 J. Tait Mind in Matter 41 It is because she refuses to propagate monstrosities that hybrids are sterile. 1903 H. V. Esmond When we were Twenty-one i. 6 If anybody saw you glaring at me like that, they'd be bound to think I was a monstrosity out of a show. 1940 R. Goldschmidt Material Basis Evol. 326 For a long time the phenomenon of homoeosis..has been known as an occasional monstrosity in arthropods... The classical example is the regeneration of an antenna after removal of the eyestalk in Decapods. 1985 M. F. Myles Textbk. Midwives (ed. 10) xi. 177 Monstrosities and malformations such as anencephaly and spina bifida are common. b. The condition or fact of being abnormally developed or grossly malformed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] crookedness1398 monstruosity1402 deformity1413 misfashioning1469 misfigurec1480 counterfeiturec1500 monstrosity1616 pravity1647 monstruousness1653 malformation1769 misformation1822 dysmorphia1848 misshape1867 aplasia1885 nanity1892 the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > [noun] > abnormally-formed fetus > condition monstrosity1616 the world > life > biology > biological processes > development, growth, or degeneration > [noun] > growth > types of growth > abnormal or excessive development > condition of being abnormally developed monstrosity1616 1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) iv. 35 Which glasse (it seemd) was caste in Alchymie, to amplifye thinges to monstrositie. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Monstrosity,..monstrousness. 1741 Mem. Martinus Scriblerus xv. 56 in A. Pope Wks. II ‘Monstrosity could not incapacitate from Marriage,’ witness the Case of Hermaphrodites. 1873 St. G. Mivart Lessons Elem. Anat. ix. 389 The optic structure is never single and median except by monstrosity. 1971 Ann. Human Genetics 34 299 This rise and fall in the incidence of hydrocephalus is clearly very different in timing from the changes in spina bifida and monstrosity. 1993 Jrnl. Postgraduate Med. 39 99 On examination one of the [conjoined] twins had gross monstrosity and was threatening the survival of the better twin. 2. a. Something repulsively unnatural, an abomination; a thing which is outrageously or offensively wrong. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > [noun] monstruosity1402 grievoustyc1410 outrageousnessc1450 enormityc1480 atrocity1534 malignitya1535 monstruousness1545 heinousness1563 monstrousness1574 ugliness1601 enormousnessa1631 monstrosity1639 enormance1682 flagrancy1714 atrociousness1731 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural unkindnessc1390 unnaturalness?a1425 monstrosity1639 prodigiousness1649 preternaturality1666 preternaturalness1695 abnormity1724 unnaturalism1754 unnaturality1819 non-naturality1827 preternaturalism1834 non-naturalness1878 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xxxiv. 89 The body of their State being a very monstrosity, and a grievance of mankind. 1651 H. Binning Serm. (1847) 530 What a monstrosity is it for one member to seek its own things..as if it were a distinct body. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 184 This numerous piece of Monstrosity (the Multitude). 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 257 We sometimes read..of Monstrous Births, but we may often see a greater Monstrosity in Educations. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. ii. 48 Those few defects,..monstrositys or whatever you please to call them, which are to be found in the world, and seem to disfigure the face of nature. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. x. 99/1 England..offers precisely the elements..in which such moon-calves and monstrosities are best generated. 1858 W. Greener Gunnery in 1858 113 Such a monstrosity [sc. as the ‘Lancaster gun’] would have been buried soon after its birth. 1886 C. A. Briggs Messianic Prophecy Pref. 11 The word Jehovah..is a linguistic monstrosity. 1950 W. J. M. Mackenzie in G. F. M. Campion Brit. Govt. since 1918 83 A branch or a department may be a theoretical monstrosity and yet be a ‘happy ship’. 1993 Wall St. Jrnl. 6 Oct. a. 16/2 What was conceived in Jackson Hole as a market-oriented approach has been born as a bureaucratic monstrosity. b. The condition or fact of being repulsively unnatural or outrageously or offensively wrong. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] wantonnessc1405 absurdity1529 monstruousness1545 impertinency1573 ridiculousness1573 monstrousness1574 absurd1581 absurdness1582 incongruity1597 fancy1598 delirium1599 monstruosity1604 absurdum1606 foppishness1611 impertinence1616 nonsense1630 impertinentness1645 irrationality1647 monstrosity1651 nonsensicality1652 ridicule1668 ridicule1672 nonsensicalness1674 maggotry1706 preposterousness1727 zanyship1766 ridiculosity1773 drollness1823 stultification1832 nonsensity1834 farcicality1849 cockeyedness1858 1651 Last Will & Test. James Hynd 5 If Gallantry may mitigate Guilt, I suppose the manner of my Projections and Actions..may somewhat extenuate the monstrositie of my Crimes. 1662 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 3rd Pt. 507 Sin being a brat of hell, comes not to its full complexion and monstrosity, till it be sent back to the place it came from. 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 246 The statement of his contemporary biographer confuted itself by its monstrosity. 1856 F. J. A. Hort Coleridge in Cambr. Ess. 327 The moral monstrosity of supposing that God can have given us lying faculties. 1902 A. B. Davidson Called of God xi. 282 To be lost..does not imply any uncommonness of vice, or monstrosity of wickedness. 1957 T. Hughes Famous Poet in Hawk in Rain 11 How difficult it is to define just what Amounts to monstrosity in that Very ordinary appearance. 1992 I. Banks Crow Road xi. 260 What, I thought? Had my tone of reason in the face of monstrosity finally registered? 3. = monster n. 1a. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > hybrid creature or monster > [noun] fiend-scatheOE beastc1300 monsterc1375 monstruosity1601 monstrosity1643 1643 Sir T. Browne Religio Medici (authorized ed.) ii. §1 The Multitude..confused together, make but one great beast, and a monstrosity more prodigious then Hydra. View more context for this quotation 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing xiv. 128 Education..can lick us into shapes beyond the monstrosities of those of Africa. 1849 J. R. Planché Seven Champions ii. i, in Extravaganzas (1879) III. 341 Herdsmen: But the Sultan himself of the Dragon's in fear—Charley: Well! I'm happy to say that I know some one here, Who has no dread of any monstrosity living. 1896 A. Lillie Worship Satan Mod. France (ed. 2) Pref. 17 Where was the logic of the pact in blood with a goat-headed monstrosity? 1917 E. R. Burroughs Princess of Mars xx. 219 I was attacked by wild beasts; strange, uncouth monstrosities that leaped upon me in the dark. 1990 J. S. Downard in A. Parfrey Apocalypse Culture (rev. ed.) 318 Jewish mysticism posits a..Frankensteinian monstrosity called the Golem. 4. Something aesthetically displeasing, esp. an ugly, oversized, or inappropriate building or structure. ΚΠ 1856 Illustr. London News 11 Oct. 359/1 Trafalgar-square, that place of monstrosities and hideosities,..is a spot which it is scarcely possible for an educated Englishman to pass without a feeling of shame or disgust. 1880 Mind 5 456 The huge marble domes of Agra and Delhi, the stucco monstrosities of..Lucknow. 1909 J. Miller Poems I. 230 While nearly every city in the Union had more or less of these monstrosities [sc. equestrian statues] I had seen but one little figure in honor of woman. 1930 E. Blunden in Time & Tide 3 Jan. 16 The new painters, with their endeavours to outmonster the monstrosities of uninspired futurists. 1952 A. Christie They do it with Mirrors iii. 24 ‘It's pretty ghastly, really,’ said Gina cheerfully. ‘A sort of Gothic monstrosity.’ 1991 M. Gray First Fifty (BNC) 109 Why a laird would build such a strange, suburban, concrete monstrosity in a remote and beautiful glen is open to debate. 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