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Meaning of dissymmetry | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1

Definitions

  1. asymmetry
  2. chirality

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Examples

“In each feature of this sovereign friendship (exception, improbable and random unicity, metapolitical transcendence, disproportion, infinite dissymmetry, denaturalization, etc.), it might be tempting to recognize a rupture with Greek philía – a testamentary rupture, as some would hasten to conclude, a palaeo- or neo-testamentary rupture.”
“The dissymetry between the criminal act and the torturous punishment reflected the gross imbalance of power between the subject and the sovereign.”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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