SuaviloquyToday’s word

disfigurement

Disfigurement, n.

1. Act of disfiguring, or state of being disfigured; deformity. Milton.

2. That which disfigures; a defacement; a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for disfigurement; he lists it under blemish.

He lists it without comment; the entries above explain its neighbors.