mutility

deformity, defectivity

Noun

  1. deformity, defectivity
    • Its pathological nature is constituted by its perpetuation into an inappropriate movement which the conviction of its mutility cannot abolish. - 1910, The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery, volume XI, page...
    • Like all other attachments in human life, love too is vulnerable to the onslaught of time and mutility. - 1983, The Indian Journal of English Studies, volume XXII, page 21:
    • Clearly, significant scientific, sociological, and economic reasons suggest continuation of present efforts to establish and understand the role of disease (and other elements of natural mutility) in wild, and captive,...

Origin

Borrowed from Late Latin mutilitās.