[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

monstrosity \monstros"ity\ mo^nstro^s"i^ty^, n.;
   pl. monstrosities mo^nstro^s"i^ti^z. cf. f.
   monstruosit'e. see monstrous.
   the state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of
   nature; that which is monstrous; a monster. --south.
   1913 webster

         a monstrosity never changes the name or affects the
         immutability of a species.               --adanson
                                                  trans..
   1913 webster
see also:
monstrosities monstrous 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

monstrosity
     n 1: a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
          syn: freak, monster, lusus naturae
     2: something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb
        as a monstrosity"
see also:
freak monster lusus naturae 

[3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

111 moby thesaurus words for "monstrosity":
   aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abnormality, abnormity, abortion,
   absurdity, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, anticness,
   awfulness, baboon, bag, barbarity, bizarreness, bizarrerie,
   blemish, blot, bowlegs, camelback, cleft palate, clubfoot,
   crookback, curiousness, defacement, deformation, deformity,
   derangement, deviation, difference, disfigurement, divergence, dog,
   dreadfulness, eccentricity, enormity, enormousness, erraticism,
   eyesore, fantasticality, fiendishness, flatfoot, freak,
   freak of nature, freakishness, fright, frightfulness, gargoyle,
   ghoulishness, grotesqueness, grotesquerie, hag, harelip, harridan,
   heinousness, hellishness, heteromorphism, hideousness,
   horribleness, horridness, horror, hugeness, humpback, hunchback,
   immensity, inferiority, irregularity, knock-knee, kyphosis,
   lordosis, malconformation, malformation, mess, miscreation,
   misproportion, misshape, monster, monstrousness, mutilation,
   no beauty, oddity, outlandishness, peculiarity, prodigiousness,
   quaintness, queerness, scarecrow, sight, singularity, splayfoot,
   strangeness, stupendousness, subnormality, superiority, swayback,
   talipes, teratism, teratology, torticollis, tremendousness,
   truncation, ugly duckling, unnaturalism, unnaturalness, valgus,
   vastness, weirdness, witch, wryneck

[4] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

monstrosity 1. n. a ridiculously elephantine program or system, esp.
   one that is buggy or only marginally functional. 2. adj. the quality of
   being monstrous see `overgeneralization' in the discussion of
   jargonification. see also baroque.


see also:
elephantine baroque 

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