dissymmetry

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Definition of dissymmetry

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)asymmetry
    “In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture.”
    “The dissymetry between the criminal act and the torturous punishment reflected the gross imbalance of power between the subject and the sovereign.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)asymmetry
    “In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture.”
    “The dissymetry between the criminal act and the torturous punishment reflected the gross imbalance of power between the subject and the sovereign.”
  2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)chirality

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Etymology

From dis- + symmetry.

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