| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
Synonyms: |
alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transfiguration, transformation, variation, vicissitude |
Antonyms: |
inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | alteration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change |
Synonyms: |
about-face, accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, amendment, conversion, correction, difference, diversification, exchange, fixing, flip-flop, metamorphosis, mid-course correction, modification, mutation, reformation, remodeling, reshaping, revision, shift, switch, switch-over, transformation, transmutation, turn, variance, variation |
| Main Entry: | birth defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congenital abnormality |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital malformation, deformity, disability, mutation |
| Main Entry: | change |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something made different; alteration |
Synonyms: |
about-face, addition, adjustment, advance, break, compression, contraction, conversion, correction, development, difference, distortion, diversification, diversity, innovation, metamorphosis, modification, modulation, mutation, novelty, permutation, reconstruction, refinement, remodeling, reversal, revision, revolution, shift, surrogate, switch, tempering, transformation, transition, transmutation, turn, turnover, variance, variation, variety, vicissitude |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, alterity, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divagation, divergency, diversity, division, fork, mutation, otherness, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, turning, unlikeness, variety, varying |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | flux |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of constant change |
Synonyms: |
alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity, instability, modification, motion, mutability, mutation, transition, unrest |
Antonyms: |
constancy, stability, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | freak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something, someone very abnormal |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abortion, anomaly, chimera, curiosity, geek*, grotesque, malformation, miscreation, misshape, monster, monstrosity, mutant, mutation, oddity, queer, rarity, sport, weirdo* |
Antonyms: |
normality, ordinary, regular |
| Main Entry: | innovation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, novelty |
Synonyms: |
addition, alteration, contraption, cutting edge*, departure, deviation, introduction, last word, latest thing, leading edge, modernism, modernization, modification, mutation, newness, notion, permutation, shift, variation, vicissitude, wrinkle |
Antonyms: |
custom, habit, old, old hat, rut, tradition |
| Main Entry: | malformation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity |
Synonyms: |
abberation, abnormality, defect, disfigurement, impairment, injury, malconformation, misshape, monstrosity, mutation |
| Main Entry: | metamorphosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | conversion, transformation |
Synonyms: |
alteration, change, changeover, evolution, mutation, rebirth, transfiguration, transfigurement, translation, transmogrification, transmutation, transubstantiation |
Antonyms: |
stagnation |