abnormity

English

Etymology

From abnorm(al) +‎ -ity, from Late Latin abnormitas, from Latin abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈnɔɹ.mɪ.ti/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

abnormity (countable and uncountable, plural abnormities)

1. (rare) Alternative form of abnormality [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]
   • 1893, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks‎^[1]:

     Why do critics—some of them—make such short, smart work,—such cheerful, confident despatch, nowadays, of a story with religion in it, as if it were an abnormity,—a thing with sentence of death in itself, like a calf born with two heads,—that needs not their trouble, save to name it as it is?

   • 2017, Xinhua News, China says launch of Long March-5 Y2 "unsuccessful"‎^[2]:

     Abnormity was detected during the flight of the rocket, which blasted off at 7:23 p.m. Sunday from Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern province of Hainan.

2. A monstrosity [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]

Synonyms

• (abnormality—state of being abnormal): abnormality, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
• (abnormality—something that is abnormal): aberrant; outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

Translations

departure from the ordinary type

• Dutch: abnormaliteit (nl) m
• Greek: ανωμαλία (el) f (anomalía), τερατούργημα (el) n (teratoúrgima)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: abnormitet (no) m

  Nynorsk: abnormitet m

• Romanian: nenormalitate f, abnormalitate f