Deformation
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The act of deforming, or state of being deformed. A transformation; change of shape.
Distortion
Part of speech: noun
Definition: An act of distorting.A result of distorting.A misrepresentation of the truth.Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.An effect used in music, most commonly on guitars in rock or metal.
Example sentence: This would be a distortion of their meaning, since the pictures are intimate and intense, and are the opposite of what is decorative; and have been painted in a scale of normal living rather than an institutional scale.