different between monstrous vs cacogenesis

English

From Middle English monstrous, from Old French monstrueuse, monstrüos, from Latin m?nstr?sus. Compare monstruous.

monstrous (comparative more monstrous, superlative most monstrous)

Hideous or frightful.
Enormously large.
a monstrous height
Freakish or grotesque.
- The irregular and monstrous births
- 1650, Jeremy Taylor, The rule and exercises of holy living
  He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love […] is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.
Of, or relating to a mythical monster; full of monsters.
(obsolete) Marvellous; exceedingly strange; fantastical.

monstrous

caco- +? -genesis

cacogenesis (uncountable)

(medicine) A morbid, monstrous, or pathological growth or product; an abnormality in structure; a monstrosity.

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