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ἀσυμμετρία

First declension Noun; Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἀσυμμετρία

Etym.: a)su/mmetros

Sense

  1. want of proportion or harmony

Examples

  • πολλὴ δὲ καὶ ἡ τῶν κώλων ἀσυμμετρία πρὸσ ἄλληλα καὶ ἡ τῶν περιόδων ἀνωμαλία καὶ ἡ τῶν σχημάτων καινότησ καὶ τὸ τῆσ ἀκολουθίασ ὑπεροπτικὸν καὶ τἆλλα ὅσα χαρακτηρικὰ τῆσ ἀκομψεύτου τε καὶ αὐστηρᾶσ ἐπελογισάμην ὄντα ἁρμονίασ. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, De Compositione Verborum, chapter 2292)

Synonyms

  1. want of proportion or harmony

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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