an act or instance of distorting.

the state of being distorted or the relative degree or amount by which something is distorted or distorts.

anything that is distorted, as a sound, image, fact, etc.

Optics . an aberration of a lens or system of lenses in which the magnification of the object varies with the lateral distance from the axis of the lens.

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beauty , clarity , perfection

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baloney * , bend , bias , bs , buckle , coloring , contortion , crock , crookedness , exaggeration , intorsion , jazz * , jive * , lie , line , malconformation , malformation , misinterpretation , misrepresentation , misshape , misstatement , misuse , mutilation , perversion , slant , smoke * , story * , tall story , torture , twist , twistedness , warp