asymmetry(n = noun.attribute) dissymmetry, imbalance - (mathematics) a lack of symmetry;
is a kind of spatial property, spatiality
has particulars: geometrical irregularity, irregularity, lopsidedness, skewness, radial asymmetry, handedness, laterality, footedness, eyedness
Antonym: symmetry
Derived forms adjective asymmetric1, adjective asymmetrical1
1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. lack of bilateral symmetry. [1913 Webster]
2. Incommensurability. Barrow. [1913 Webster]
asymmetry, n. lack of symmetry.
Derivative:
asymmetric adj. asymmetrical adj. asymmetrically adv.
Etymology:
Gk asummetria (as A-(1), SYMMETRY)
N distortion, detortion, contortion, twist, crookedness, grimace, deformity, malformation, malconformation, harelip, monstrosity, misproportion, want of symmetry, anamorphosis, ugliness, talipes, teratology, asymmetry, irregularity, distorted, out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked, not true, not straight, on one side, crump, deformed, harelipped, misshapen, misbegotten, misproportioned, ill proportioned, ill-made, grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn, camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed, bandy, bandy legged, bow legged, bow kneed, knock kneed, splay footed, club footed, round shouldered, snub nosed, curtailed of one's fair proportions, stumpy, gaunt, bloated, scalene, simous, taliped, talipedic, all manner of ways, crooked as a Virginia fence.