Synonyms for distortion
dɪˈstɔr ʃəndis·tor·tion

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1. distortion, deformationnoun

   a change for the worse

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining, contortion

2. distorted shape, distortionnoun

   a shape resulting from distortion

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining

3. aberration, distortion, optical aberrationnoun

   an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, deviance, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, aberrance, twisting, straining, aberrancy

4. distortionnoun

   a change (usually undesired) in the waveform of an acoustic or analog electrical signal; the difference between two measurements of a signal (as between the input and output signal)

   "heavy metal guitar players use vacuum tube amplifiers to produce extreme distortion"

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining

5. distortion, overrefinement, straining, torture, twistingnoun

   the act of distorting something so it seems to mean something it was not intended to mean

   Synonyms:
   overrefinement, straining, strain, torturing, spin, twist, optical aberration, twisting, aberration, whirl, twirl, deformation, agony, torture, distorted shape, anguish, torment

6. distortionnoun

   the mistake of misrepresenting the facts

   Synonyms:
   deformation, overrefinement, torture, aberration, optical aberration, distorted shape, twisting, straining

Matched Categories

1. • Acoustic Phenomenon
   • Damage
   • Electrical Phenomenon
   • Mistake
   • Optical Phenomenon

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1. distortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   twist, wryness, contortion, deformity

2. distortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   perversion, misrepresentation, falsification

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1. distortionnoun

   Synonyms:
   deformity, perversion, crookedness, falsification

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1. List of paraphrases for "distortion":

   distorting, deformation, warp, distortions, misrepresentation, denaturation, bias, disruption, strain, perversion, distort, denaturing, distortive, mutilation, skew

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1. Laurel Bossen:

   You have to link hands and feet. Footbound women did valuable handwork at home in cottage industries. The image of them as idle sexual trophies is a grave distortion of history.

2. Luxembourg Energy Minister Claude Turmes:

   We are organising a distortion of the internal market of a magnitude never seen.

3. Holly Huffnagle:

   Holocaust distortion is an attack on Jewish identity and memory, and Lara Logan should apologize immediately, we also call on Lara Logan employer Fox to voice their disapproval of her statements. Their silence has been deafening.

4. Guillermo Lasso:

   Delegates from our political alliance will challenge the results, we will not allow a distortion of the popular will.

5. Russian President Vladimir Putin:

   We see what's happening in the Middle East, where terrorists from the so-called Islamic State are discrediting the great world religion of Islam, planting hatred, killing people, destroying world cultural monuments in a barbaric way, their ideology is based on a lie, on a distortion of Islam.