Mon-strōs'i-ty, n.
n. [Fr. monstruosité, Pr. mostruozitat, Sp. monstruosidad, It. mostruosità, mostrosità. See infra.]
Sense 1. The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature.
We often read of monstrous births; but we see a greater monstrosity in education, when a father begets a son and trains him up into a beast. South.
Sense 2. An unnatural production; that which is monstrous.
A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species. Adamson.