abnormalcy
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
abnormal + -cy, by analogy with normalcy.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
abnormalcy (countable and uncountable, plural abnormalcies)
- Synonym of abnormality
- 2009, Jarrett Leplin, A Theory of Epistemic Justification, page 29:
- Both the abnormalcy of the conditions and the subject's insensitivity to their abnormalcy are understandable.
- 1922, G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America[1]:
- […] Capitalism was not a normalcy but an abnormalcy.
Synonyms[edit]
- (state of being abnormal): abnormality, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
- (something that is abnormal): aberrant; outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly