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Disproportion

Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.

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Disparity 76% connected

Inequality; difference in age, rank, condition, or excellence; dissimilitude; -- followed by between, in, of, as to, etc.; as, disparity in, or of, y…

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Dissymmetry 92% connected

Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.

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Symmetry 94% connected

A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; th…

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Symmetry 94% connected

A due proportion of the several parts of a body to each other; adaptation of the form or dimensions of the several parts of a thing to each other; th…

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Beggary noun · 86% connection

The act of begging; the state of being a beggar; mendicancy; extreme poverty.

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Deprivation noun · 86% connection

The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.

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Destitution noun · 86% connection

The state of being deprived of anything; the state or condition of being destitute, needy, or without resources; deficiency; lack; ext…

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Disconnect verb · 86% connection

To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

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Disconnection noun · 86% connection

The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.

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Gap noun · 86% connection

An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which impli…

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Gulf noun · 86% connection

A hollow place in the earth; an abyss; a deep chasm or basin,

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Impoverishment noun · 86% connection

The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.

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Indigence noun · 86% connection

The condition of being indigent; want of estate, or means of comfortable subsistence; penury; poverty; as, helpless, indigence.

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Inequality noun · 86% connection

The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparit…

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Mendicancy noun · 86% connection

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

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Mendicity noun · 86% connection

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

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Need noun · 86% connection

A state that requires supply or relief; pressing occasion for something; necessity; urgent want.

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Neediness noun · 86% connection

The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

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Nonequivalence noun · 86% connection

not interchangeable

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Pauperism noun · 86% connection

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

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Pauperization noun · 86% connection

The act or process of reducing to pauperism.

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Penury noun · 86% connection

Absence of resources; want; privation; indigence; extreme poverty; destitution.

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Asymmetry noun · 78% connection

Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.

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Cathetometer noun · 78% connection

An instrument for the accurate measurement of small differences of height; esp. of the differences in the height of the upper surfaces…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: want, proportion, quantity, lack, symmetry.
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Dearth noun · 78% connection

Scarcity which renders dear; want; lack; specifically, lack of food on account of failure of crops; famine.

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Deformity adjective · 78% connection

The state of being deformed; want of proper form or symmetry; any unnatural form or shape; distortion; irregularity of shape or featur…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: want, proportion, quantity, lack, symmetry.
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Desiderate verb · 78% connection

To desire; to feel the want of; to lack; to miss; to want.

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Dimension noun · 78% connection

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural,…

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Disproportional adjective · 78% connection

Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadeq…

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Double adjective · 78% connection

Twofold; multiplied by two; increased by its equivalent; made twice as large or as much, etc.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: want, proportion, quantity, lack, symmetry.
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Entropy noun · 78% connection

A certain property of a body, expressed as a measurable quantity, such that when there is no communication of heat the quantity remain…

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Equivalent adjective · 78% connection

Equal in wortir or value, force, power, effect, import, and the like; alike in significance and value; of the same import or meaning.

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Eucalyptus noun · 78% connection

A myrtaceous genus of trees, mostly Australian. Many of them grow to an immense height, one or two species exceeding the height even o…

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Gothic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

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