disproportionatenessn.
The quality of being out of proportion.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [noun] > quality of being disproportionate
distemperance1340
unproportionatenessa1398
improportionc1450
inequalitya1538
disproportion1555
distemperment1582
misproportionateness1587
misproportion1596
unproportionableness1610
distemper1612
unproportiona1626
disproportionality1642
disproportionatedness1647
incommensuration1650
disproportionableness1651
overproportion1666
disproportionateness1668
incommensurateness1727
unproportionality1818
1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) ii. xviii. 147 The Incongruity and Disproportionateness of the Use of them.
a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) II. 258 It would argue a disproportionateness, a want of balance.
1874 F. W. Farrar Life Christ x. 119 Every one must have been struck..with the apparent disproportionateness between the cause and the effect.
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