different between dissimilitude vs disproportion

English

Etymology

From Middle English dissimilitude, from Latin dissimilit?d?, from dissimilis (“unlike”).

Noun

dissimilitude (countable and uncountable, plural dissimilitudes)

1. The quality of being diverse or different; lack of resemblance.

Antonyms

• (quality of being diverse): similitude

Translations

English

Etymology

dis- +? proportion

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?sp???p????n/

Noun

disproportion (countable and uncountable, plural disproportions)

1. The state of being out of proportion; an abnormal or improper ratio; an imbalance.
   • 1938, Xavier Herbert, Capricornia, New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1943, Chapter XIII, p. 208, [1]

     […] a handsome creature, remarkably so, with features so symmetrical […] that a micrometer gauge could scarcely find a disproportion in her smooth and broad mahogany-coloured face.

   the disproportion of the length of a building to its height

2. Lack of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness.

   the disproportion of strength or means to an object

Derived terms

• cephalopelvic disproportion

Translations

Verb

disproportion (third-person singular simple present disproportions, present participle disproportioning, simple past and past participle disproportioned)

1. (transitive) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch.
   • 1838, William H. Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella the Catholic

     a degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory