dissymmetry

English

Etymology

From dis- +‎ symmetry.

Noun

dissymmetry (countable and uncountable, plural dissymmetries)

1. asymmetry
   • 1997, “He Who Accompanies Me”, in George Collins, transl., The Politics of Friendship, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, translation of Politiques de l’amitié by Jacques Derrida, published 2005, →ISBN, page 185:

     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.

2. (obsolete, chemistry) chirality