Noun: monstrosity món'stró-si-tee
- Something hideous or frightful
"they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
- A person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed
"The two-headed calf was considered a monstrosity by the local farmers";
- freak, monster, lusus naturae [archaic]
Derived forms: monstrosities
Type of: malformation, miscreation, mutant, mutation, sport, variation
Encyclopedia: Monstrosity