abnormity
English
Etymology
From abnorm(al) + -ityCategory:English terms suffixed with -ity#ABNORMITY, from Late LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Late Latin#ABNORMITYCategory:English terms derived from Late Latin#ABNORMITY abnormitas, from LatinCategory:English terms derived from Latin#ABNORMITY abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.
Pronunciation
Noun
abnormity (countable and uncountable, plural abnormities)Category:English lemmas#ABNORMITYCategory:English nouns#ABNORMITYCategory:English uncountable nouns#ABNORMITYCategory:English countable nouns#ABNORMITYCategory:English countable nouns#ABNORMITYCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#ABNORMITYCategory:Pages with entries#ABNORMITYCategory:Pages with 1 entry#ABNORMITY
- (rareCategory:English terms with rare senses#ABNORMITY) Alternative form of abnormality [First attested in the mid 18th century.][1]
- 1893, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks:
- 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?Category:English terms with quotations#ABNORMITY
- 2017, Xinhua News, China says launch of Long March-5 Y2 "unsuccessful":
- 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.Category:English terms with quotations#ABNORMITY
- A monstrosity [First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
Synonyms
- (abnormality—state of being abnormal): abnormality, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
- (abnormality—something that is abnormal): aberrant; outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly
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References
- 1 2 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnormity”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.