Synonyms of metamorphosis

metamorphosis

noun

ˌme-tə-ˈmȯr-fə-səs 

as in transformation

a change in form, appearance, or use

the metamorphosis of caterpillars into butterflies

the metamorphosis of the abandoned factory into a mixed-use property

Synonyms & Similar Words

• transformation
• conversion
• transition
• shift
• transfiguration
• changeover
• alteration
• modification
• adjustment
• reformation
• revision
• deformation
• transmutation
• remodeling
• reworking
• reconversion
• variation
• distortion
• reconstruction
• replacement
• displacement
• disfigurement
• substitution
• mutation
• remaking
• revamping
• refashioning
• redo
• redoing
• supplantation

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of metamorphosis

Turning external pressures into brutal obsessions is a metamorphosis as visceral as that of a younger self bursting forth from your back. —Shirley Li, The Atlantic, 8 Jan. 2025

This visceral metamorphosis, which haunts the pages of her memoir Black Milk: On Writing, Motherhood, and the Harem Within (2007; English translation 2011), transmutes nature’s most fundamental symbol of maternal sustenance into a potent metaphor for creative anxiety born of postpartum despair. —Fidan Cheikosman, JSTOR Daily, 1 Jan. 2025

Read the full Virgo Daily Horoscope Libra (September 23 - October 22) Your career and home life are undergoing a metamorphosis. —USA TODAY, 31 Oct. 2024

And this is a metamorphosis that likely won’t be for the better, and could poison fanhood. —Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 16 Jan. 2025