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Meaning of ABNORMALITY

Pronunciation:  `abnor'malitee

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
  2. [n]  marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
  3. [n]  retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
  4. [n]  
 
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 Synonyms: abnormal condition, abnormalcy, freakishness, irregularity, mental defectiveness
 
 Antonyms: normalcy, normality
 
 See Also: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abrachia, acardia, acephalia, acephalism, acephaly, acorea, acromicria, acromikria, acromphalus, amastia, aneuploidy, anomalousness, anomaly, anorchia, anorchidism, anorchism, arrested development, asynclitism, atresia, atypicality, backwardness, brachydactylia, brachytactyly, condition, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy, cryptorchism, cyclopia, deviance, deviance, deviated septum, deviation, dextrocardia, dysplasia, ectrodactyly, erethism, feeblemindedness, fetal distress, fixation, foetal distress, gynecomastia, hepatomegaly, heterotaxy, hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, hydramnios, hydrocephalus, hydrocephaly, hypervitaminosis, hypospadias, infantile fixation, infantilism, inversion, irritation, lagophthalmos, macrencephaly, macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly, megalohepatia, mental abnormality, mental retardation, microbrachia, microcephalus, microcephaly, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, molar pregnancy, nanocephaly, nanophthalmos, obliquity, pachycheilia, palmature, phimosis, pneumothorax, progeria, regression, retardation, retroflection, retroflexion, retroversion, sequela, slowness, spinal curvature, status, strangeness, subnormality, subnormality, transposition, unfamiliarity, untypicality

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Ab`nor*mal"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Abnormalities}.
1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation;
   irregularity. --Darwin.
2. Something abnormal.
 
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