mutility

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin mutilitās.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mjuːˈtɪlɪti/
• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

mutility

1. (rare) deformity, defectivity
   • 1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, page 217:

     Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into an inappropriate movement which the conviction of its mutility cannot abolish.

   • 1983, The Indian Journal of English Studies, volume XXII, page 21:

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

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

     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.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mutility.

Anagrams

• ultimity