abnormality
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Etymology
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˌæbˌnɔɹˈmæl.ət.i/, /ˌæbˌnɔɹˈmæl.ɪt.i/, /ˌæbˌnɚˈmæl.ət.i/, /ˌæbˌnɚˈmæl.ɪt.i/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
abnormality (countable and uncountable, plural abnormalities)
- The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature. [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
- 1991, Brannon Braga, “Identity Crisis”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 18, spoken by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden):
- I want a full genetic analysis. We're going to examine any abnormality we find no matter how insignificant it seems.
Synonyms
- (state of being abnormal): abnormalcy, anomalousness, enormity, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
- (something abnormal): aberrant, deviant, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
Antonyms
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Translations
state of being abnormal
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something abnormal
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References
- Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnormality”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.
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