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Noun: monstrosity  món'stró-si-tee
  1. Something hideous or frightful
    "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
     
  2. 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