disformity

English

Etymology

Compare deformity.

Noun

disformity (countable and uncountable, plural disformities)

1. dissimilarity; nonresemblance; something that is not uniform.
   • 1705, Samuel Clarke, Natural Religion and the Truth and Certainty of the Christian Revelation (sermon)

     uniformity or diſformity in comparing together the respective figures of bodies

   • 1973, Joseph Hayim Abraham, The Origins and Growth of Sociology:

     the only task of sociology, for it is as certain as anything in social life that disformities are as frequent, and perhaps as important, as the uniformities, and it is the task of sociology to be able to account for these

2. deformity

References

• “disformity”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.