abnormity

American  

[ab-nawr-mi-tee] / æbˈnɔr mɪ ti /

noun

• abnormities
  plural

1. an abnormal condition, quality, etc.; abnormality; irregularity.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• abnormities
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of abnormity

1725–35; < Late Latin abnormitās, equivalent to abnorm ( is ) ( ab- ab- + norm ( a ) rule, norm + -is adj. suffix) + -itās -ity

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Example Sentences

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abnormity abnormities

Amongst the Birds of Ceylon, the same abnormity is apparent.

From Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon by Sir James Emerson Tennent

There is no diabolism about him; for barbaric races, while believing in the existence of hurtful and malicious fiends, have not a sufficiently vivid sense of moral abnormity to form the conception of diabolism.

From Myths and myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative Mythology by John Fiske

Dr. Langenbeck mentions a family of Silesian peasants who seemed to have an hereditary predisposition to the abnormity known as microcephalism, or small-headedness.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

I'm an animated dollar mark, a financial abnormity, with just about as much chance of being loved for myself alone as a fox in November.

From Madcap by George Gibbs

And this one—Hermia Challoner, an enthusiast without a mission—a feminine abnormity, half child, half oracle, wholly irresponsible and yet, by the same token, wholly and delightfully human!

From Madcap by George Gibbs

I leave it to physiologists to elucidate the peculiarity of vital phenomena in these unfortunate abnormities of Nature.

From The Philippine Islands by John Foreman

He was not, as Marut supposed, a conscience-stricken man, but a man with a diseased conscience, his sense of duty and responsibility developed to abnormities which left him no clear judgment.

From The Native Born or, the Rajah's People by I. A. R. (Ida Alexa Ross) Wylie

A lack of intelligence carries no weight with her; in fact, a superabundance of mental power or even genius, as abnormities, might have an unfavourable effect.

From Essays of Schopenhauer by Arthur Schopenhauer

But in the field of mental abnormities, in the whole world of ideas and emotions and volitions, he simply lacks that background.

From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg

The question of how to differentiate the diagnosis of insanity from that of the other mental abnormities is not our question at this moment.

From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg

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