What is another word for distortion?
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Pronunciation:
[ dɪstˈɔːʃən], [ dɪstˈɔːʃən], [ d_ɪ_s_t_ˈɔː_ʃ_ə_n]
When you are trying to express yourself, it is essential to have a rich vocabulary that allows you to describe nuances accurately. One word that you might find yourself using a lot is "distortion." It refers to the alteration of something's original shape or meaning. However, there are many different synonyms you can use to convey the same idea. Some examples include "aberration," "deformity," "perversion," "breakdown," or "deviation." Using a variety of synonyms can add depth and complexity to your writing, making it more engaging and enjoyable for the reader. So the next time you need to describe distortion, consider using one of these synonyms to make your writing more dynamic.
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Synonyms for Distortion:
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n.
• act • adulteration • blemish- abrasion ,
- blemish ,
- blister ,
- blot ,
- blotch ,
- brand ,
- check ,
- chip ,
- damage ,
- defacement ,
- deformity ,
- discoloration ,
- disfigurement ,
- dot ,
- drawback ,
- fleck ,
- fracture ,
- freckle ,
- gash ,
- hack ,
- hurt ,
- imperfection ,
- impurity ,
- kink ,
- lesion ,
- mar ,
- mark ,
- nick ,
- notch ,
- pockmark ,
- rift ,
- scab ,
- scar ,
- score ,
- scrape ,
- scratch ,
- scuff ,
- slit ,
- sore ,
- speck ,
- splotch ,
- spoilage ,
- spot ,
- stain ,
- stigma ,
- tarnish ,
- wart ,
- weal .
- mutation ,
- novelties ,
- novelty ,
- transformations ,
- transition ,
- transmogrification ,
- turnover ,
- turnovers ,
- variation ,
- vicissitude .
- de basement ,
- de basements ,
- de cay ,
- de cays ,
- de-basement ,
- de-basements ,
- de-cay ,
- de-cays ,
- doctorings ,
- noxiousnesses ,
- rottennesses .
- amphibology ,
- cover up ,
- coverup ,
- deceptiveness ,
- double meaning ,
- equivocality ,
- fibbing ,
- quibbling routine ,
- runaround ,
- shufflings .
- Misjudgment ,
- blunder ,
- defect ,
- error ,
- fallacy ,
- fault ,
- flaw ,
- gaffe ,
- inaccuracy ,
- miscalculation ,
- misconception ,
- misconstruction ,
- misestimation ,
- misprint ,
- mistake ,
- oversight ,
- slip ,
- typo .
- aggrandizement ,
- burlesque ,
- embellishment ,
- hyperbole ,
- overdevelopment ,
- overestimation ,
- overstatement ,
- overvaluation .
- embroiderings ,
- hyper bole ,
- hyper boles ,
- hyper-bole ,
- hyper-boles ,
- laying it thick ,
- laying on thick ,
- laying thick ,
- mountain out molehill ,
- over statement ,
- over statements ,
- over-statement ,
- over-statements .
- de traction ,
- de tractions ,
- de-traction ,
- de-tractions ,
- dis information ,
- dis informations ,
- dis-information ,
- dis-informations ,
- disinformations ,
- fraudulences ,
- in accuracies ,
- in accuracy ,
- in-accuracies ,
- in-accuracy ,
- tall stories .
Other synonyms:
- lie ,
- op art ,
- trick ,
- understatement .
- change .
Other relevant words:
- Blague ,
- Deflexure ,
- Detorsion ,
- Detortion ,
- Garbling ,
- Inconcinnity ,
- Intorsion ,
- Inveracity ,
- Looming ,
- Malconformation ,
- Malobservation ,
- Miscitation ,
- Misdoing ,
- Misexplanation ,
- Misexplication ,
- Misexposition ,
- Misintelligence ,
- Misreport ,
- Misshape ,
- Misteaching ,
- Overdrawing ,
- Peccancy ,
- Philosophism ,
- Self-contradiction ,
- Shredding ,
- Sidetracking ,
- Slopeness ,
- Speciosity ,
- Warpage ,
- aberrance ,
- aberrancy ,
- abnormality ,
- abstractionism ,
- absurdity ,
- abuse of terms ,
- acomia ,
- adjustment ,
- agony ,
- alter ,
- alteration ,
- anamorphosis ,
- anguish ,
- anomaly ,
- apparent soundness ,
- appear ,
- bad likeness ,
- baloney ,
- become ,
- bevel ,
- bias ,
- birdies ,
- birthmark ,
- blackhead ,
- bleb ,
- blurping ,
- botch ,
- bs ,
- buckle ,
- bulbous ,
- bulging ,
- bulgy ,
- bulla ,
- cant ,
- casuistry ,
- catachresis ,
- change shape ,
- cicatrix ,
- circularity ,
- cock-and-bull story ,
- coloring ,
- colouring ,
- comedo ,
- complication ,
- concealment ,
- confabulation ,
- contorting ,
- convert ,
- convex ,
- correction ,
- crater ,
- craze ,
- crock ,
- curve ,
- daub ,
- daubing ,
- debasement ,
- deceit ,
- deception ,
- defectiveness ,
- deflection ,
- degeneration ,
- delusion ,
- departure ,
- deviance ,
- deviancy ,
- deviation ,
- difficulty ,
- diffraction ,
- diffusion ,
- disfiguration ,
- disingenuousness ,
- dispersion ,
- disproportion ,
- dissembling ,
- dissimulation ,
- distorted shape ,
- distress ,
- diversion ,
- eddy ,
- effect ,
- eisegesis ,
- equivocalness ,
- equivocation ,
- errancy ,
- erroneousness ,
- evasion ,
- evolution ,
- expressionism ,
- fabrication ,
- fallaciousness ,
- false light ,
- false swearing ,
- falseness ,
- falsification ,
- falsifying ,
- falsity ,
- faultiness ,
- feeble imitation ,
- feedback ,
- fencing ,
- fib ,
- fiction ,
- flection ,
- flexure ,
- flutter ,
- fluttering ,
- fraud ,
- gloss ,
- gnarl ,
- hamartia ,
- hemangioma ,
- heresy ,
- heterodoxy ,
- hickey ,
- hissing ,
- hitch ,
- howling ,
- hum ,
- idiosyncrasy ,
- illusion ,
- imbalance ,
- imitation ,
- inclination ,
- inelegance ,
- injustice ,
- insincerity ,
- interpret ,
- jazz ,
- jesuitism ,
- jesuitry ,
- jive ,
- keloid ,
- knot ,
- leaning ,
- lentigo ,
- line ,
- list ,
- litotes ,
- lurch ,
- metamorphose ,
- milium ,
- misapplication ,
- misapprehension ,
- miscoloring ,
- misconstrual ,
- misdirection ,
- misfeasance ,
- misshaping ,
- misstatement ,
- mistranslation ,
- misuse ,
- mockery ,
- modify ,
- mole ,
- monstrosity ,
- morph ,
- mutilation ,
- mystification ,
- nevus ,
- obfuscation ,
- obliquity ,
- obscurantism ,
- optical aberration ,
- overrefinement ,
- pain ,
- perjury ,
- perversion ,
- pimple ,
- pit ,
- plausibility ,
- plausibleness ,
- pock ,
- port-wine mark ,
- port-wine stain ,
- prevarication ,
- protuberant ,
- pustule ,
- quirk ,
- rationalization ,
- read ,
- reform ,
- refraction ,
- render ,
- roll ,
- rumble ,
- sag ,
- scatter ,
- scratching ,
- screw ,
- screwing ,
- scribble ,
- sebaceous cyst ,
- seem ,
- shake up ,
- shuffling ,
- simulation ,
- sin ,
- sinfulness ,
- skewness ,
- slant ,
- slanting ,
- slope ,
- smoke ,
- snag ,
- sophism ,
- sophistication ,
- sophistry ,
- special pleading ,
- speciousness ,
- spin ,
- spiritualize ,
- split ,
- squalor ,
- squeal ,
- squeals ,
- squeezing ,
- squinching ,
- static ,
- story ,
- strain ,
- straining ,
- strawberry mark ,
- sty ,
- subtlety ,
- subversion ,
- suggestio falsi ,
- suppressio veri ,
- swag ,
- systematic error ,
- take off ,
- tale ,
- tall story ,
- tergiversation ,
- tilt ,
- torment ,
- torsion ,
- tortuosity ,
- torture ,
- torturing ,
- track ,
- transfiguration ,
- transfigure ,
- transform ,
- transformation ,
- translate ,
- transmogrify ,
- transmute ,
- transubstantiation ,
- trend ,
- turn ,
- twirl ,
- twist ,
- twistedness ,
- ugliness ,
- uncleanness ,
- understand ,
- unorthodoxy ,
- untrueness ,
- untruth ,
- untruthfulness ,
- verruca ,
- vesicle ,
- vicious circle ,
- virtual image ,
- vulgarism ,
- wale ,
- warp ,
- warping ,
- welt ,
- wen ,
- wheel ,
- whirl ,
- whistle ,
- whistles ,
- whitehead ,
- wow ,
- wrench ,
- wrenching ,
- wrest ,
- wring ,
- wrong ,
- wrongness .
- Double dealing ,
- Equivoque ,
- PRS ,
- aberration ,
- blot on landscape ,
- caricature ,
- deflections ,
- disinformation ,
- downtrend ,
- eyesore ,
- fall-off ,
- falloff ,
- falsehood ,
- falsifications ,
- fraudulence ,
- irregularity ,
- lampoon ,
- laying it on thick ,
- libel ,
- mis-statement ,
- misinformation ,
- mountain out of molehill ,
- noxiousness ,
- oversimplification ,
- oversimplifications ,
- pollution ,
- rottenness ,
- send up ,
- send-up ,
- sendup ,
- settlings ,
- sinkage ,
- sinkings ,
- travesty ,
- truthlessness ,
- ugly thing ,
- underestimation ,
- underestimations ,
- wanderings .
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How to use "Distortion" in context?
There is a lot of distortion going on in our society, and it's costing us a lot. We're being blinded by our personal biases, and we're losing sight of what's really important. We're worrying about things that aren't really important, and we're forgetting about the people that really matter. We need to start thinking about what's really important, and we need to start paying attention to the truth. We need to start getting rid of all of the distortion, and then we'll be able to start making progress.
Paraphrases for Distortion:
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Equivalence
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Noun, singular or mass
deformation.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Forward Entailment
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Noun, singular or mass
falsification, misrepresentation.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Independent
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Noun, singular or mass
adulteration, deterioration, deviation, discrepancy, dishonest, dislocation, disorder, disturbance, diversion, imbalance, impairment, interference, intrusion, misinterpretation, misstatement, shearing, skew, tampering, violation, Distortive, Counterfeiting, denaturing, denaturation.
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Noun, singular or mass
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Other Related
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Noun, singular or mass
alteration, deflection, deformity, disruption, mutilation, perversion, strain, twist, twisting, Distorting.
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Noun, singular or mass
Hyponym for Distortion:
n.
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phenomenon
acoustic phenomenon, electrical phenomenon.
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phenomenon
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