What's the difference between monstrosity and monstruosity?
Monstrosity
Definition:
(n.) The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Can someone get this monstrosity out of my kitchen?"
(2) The former chancellor said it was a bureaucratic monstrosity damaging the interests of the City of London.
(3) But this week, the committee rooms in Hove's brutalist town hall witnessed the birth pangs of a monstrosity which may yet dwarf any of the hideous items on Jenkins's list.
(4) Photograph: Christopher Thomond for the Guardian I don't drink as a rule, but one proud little abode cowering in the shadow of the monstrosity that is the Beetham Tower is a lovely little old Manchester boozer.
(5) The specialist heritage architect Jean-François Cabestan, warned the plans would produce a monstrosity with " the aesthetics of a James Bond villa ".
(6) The constitutional sideshow highlights the full monstrosity of the government’s benefit cuts: worse is still to come.
(7) Most days I have to walk past this London monstrosity.
(8) In Latvia and across the three Baltic states, the octogenarian's conviction that Stalin surpassed Hitler in monstrosity is commonplace.
(9) Lawson, who was chancellor from 1983 to 1989 under the leadership of Margaret Thatcher, said the EU had become "a bureaucratic monstrosity" and "the case for exit is clear".
(10) Athens is a place of contradictions and surprises, where ancient beauty meets contemporary architectural monstrosity and extreme kindness and hospitality clash with unexpected rudeness and ignorance.
(11) So it's as if some gigantifying artist – probably not Claes Oldenburg, more likely Jeff Koons – has come along in the middle of the night and transformed it into this solemn monstrosity.
(12) But instead of shutting this monstrosity, the camp is being rebuilt.
(13) Part of me is excited at the prospect of that kind of history being made, but then I think about what sort of monstrosity Sepp Blatter would commission to replace it and hope Holland win this just so the old man can't ruin yet another aspect of the World Cup."
(14) It does the same to most of the gluey, plastic, molten-cheese-smeared, iceberg-lettuce-bedded monstrosities that pass for Tex Mex in the US as well.
(15) Raiders of the Lost Ark Facebook Twitter Pinterest While, yes, Ford’s other iconic blockbuster character is somewhat similar to Solo in his eye-rolling caddishness, he’s also equally worthy of reverence, even in the fourth monstrosity.
(16) There is no doubt about the monstrosity of the case of the guilty nurse but it may be exemplary for a frequent defensive behaviour against the phenomena of age.
(17) We best know this protean monstrosity from its various film incarnations, but it was born in the 1938 sci-fi novella Who Goes There?
(18) The demonstration on Saturday is believed to have been targeting the new floating barge hotel, the Bibby Progress, which accommodates up to 635 staff and has been dubbed “a monstrosity” by local people.
(19) Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace and the World Wildlife Fund are supporting the move which came with a new 35-page report: "Gas flaring in Nigeria: a human rights, environmental and economic monstrosity."
(20) Witches at Their Incantations (perhaps illustrating his own poem Strega), in the National Gallery, is a hideous nocturnal fantasy of the black sabbath, full of skeletal monstrosities, a hanged man, stolen babies, naked hags and evil brews.
Monstruosity
Definition:
(n.) Monstrosity.
Example Sentences:
(1) The anatomopathological examination shows fibroblastic type tumoral cells, of a globulous aspect, as well as the presence of cell monstruosities with numerous mitoses, among nervous cells and amyelinic fibers are found.
(2) This monstruosity is classified in the twin monsters, but minor forms any be discussed with sacro-coccygeal teratomas and reduplication of lower limbs.
(3) Electron microscopy confirmes the presence of plasmocytes at any stage of activity without monstruosities.
(4) With an anatomical case and a clinical case, the authors describe the pygomelus, a very rare monstruosity.
(5) It is difficult to classify this monstruosity either in the simple monster or in the twin monsters.
(6) The anatomical study of 6 cases of human celosomia provided a definition of the characteristics of major celosomia, by showing the constant elements of the syndrome (particularly the parietal malformation) and the anomalies frequently found in each of the different types:--anterior (or superior) celosomia;--middle celosomia, including laparoschisis;--posterior (or inferior) celosomia, among which exstrophy of the bladder may be either one of the constant elements of the syndrome, or a limited form of the inferior celosomia;--total celosomia, of which one case was studied for this report, and of which the major forms, the schistosomia, chelinosomia and strophosomia types, seem to constitute forms of transition with other types of monstruosity.