disfigurement
Permanent visible damage
Disfigurement is damage to appearance, especially to the face or body, that leaves lasting visible marks.
Burns, scars, and birth defects can cause disfigurement.
The word carries weight in legal contexts, where permanent disfigurement may affect compensation claims.
Disfigurement can also describe damage to landscapes or buildings: the disfigurement of the coastline by industrial development.
Permanent mark formation
- deformityAbnormal body structure
- malformationAbnormally developed structure
- mutilationDamaging a body severely
- burnsHeat-caused tissue damage
amputation · facial · bodily · asymmetry · keloid · cicatrix · distortion · blemish
Mark of dishonor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- self-imageOne's view of oneself
- identityWho someone is
- discriminationUnjust differential treatment
prejudice · ostracism · staring · visibility · acceptance · resilience · self-esteem · adjustment
Physical or psychological harm
- accidentUnintended harmful event
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- burnsHeat-caused tissue damage
- violenceHarmful physical force
disease · congenital · surgical · war · combat · explosion · bite · frostbite
Outward visible form
- visibleAble to be seen
- noticeableEasily perceived or observed
- concealmentAct of hiding something
- uglinessDispleasing appearance quality
grotesque · monstrosity · abnormality · difference · altered · changed · unrecognizable · hidden
Restoring original form
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- treatmentCare for an ailment
healing · recovery · rehabilitation · dermabrasion · laser · camouflage · corrective · restoration
scarring
Permanent mark formation
- deformityAbnormal body structure
- malformationAbnormally developed structure
- mutilationDamaging a body severely
burns · amputation · facial · bodily · asymmetry · keloid · cicatrix · distortion · blemish · mark
stigma
Mark of dishonor
- shamePainful awareness of failure
- self-imageOne's view of oneself
- identityWho someone is
discrimination · prejudice · ostracism · staring · visibility · acceptance · resilience · self-esteem · adjustment · coping
injury
Physical or psychological harm
violence · disease · congenital · surgical · war · combat · explosion · bite · frostbite · infection
appearance
Outward visible form
- visibleAble to be seen
- noticeableEasily perceived or observed
- concealmentAct of hiding something
ugliness · grotesque · monstrosity · abnormality · difference · altered · changed · unrecognizable · hidden · exposed
reconstructive
Restoring original form
- surgeryInvasive medical procedure
- prosthesisManufactured replacement body part
- therapyCurative mental treatment
treatment · healing · recovery · rehabilitation · dermabrasion · laser · camouflage · corrective · restoration · suture
- harmsharm, damage, injury, hurt, wound
- monstrositiesmonstrosity, monster, freak, abomination, grotesqueness
- grotesquegrotesquerie, grotesque, grotesquery, deformity, freaks
- personal injurypersonal injury, tort, injury claim, bodily harm, harm
- Stigmasmental illness, HIV, AIDS, homelessness, addiction
- uglinessugliness, unattractiveness, unsightliness, hideousness, homeliness
disfigurementbeautification
Act of enhancing appearance
beauty · enhancement · embellishment · adornment · attractiveness
disfigurementrestoration
Returning something to condition
healing · repair · reconstruction · wholeness · intactness