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abnormality
CIDE DICTIONARY
abnormality, n.
- The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. Darwin. [1913 Webster]
- Something abnormal. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
abnormality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a an abnormal quality, occurrence, etc. b the state of being abnormal.
2 a physical irregularity.
1 a an abnormal quality, occurrence, etc. b the state of being abnormal.
2 a physical irregularity.
THESAURUS
abnormality
aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, acute disease, affection, affliction, ailment, alienation, allergic disease, allergy, anomaly, atrophy, bacterial disease, birth defect, blight, brain damage, brainsickness, cardiovascular disease, chronic disease, circulatory disease, clouded mind, complaint, complication, conceit, condition, congenital defect, conversation piece, crackpotism, crank, crankiness, crankism, craziness, criminality, crotchet, crotchetiness, curio, curiosity, daftness, defect, deficiency disease, deformity, degenerative disease, delinquency, dementedness, dementia, derangement, deviance, deviancy, deviation, differentness, disability, disease, disorder, disorientation, distemper, distortion, distraction, divergence, dottiness, eccentricity, endemic, endemic disease, endocrine disease, epidemic disease, erraticism, erraticness, exception, folie, freakiness, freakishness, functional disease, fungus disease, furor, gastrointestinal disease, genetic disease, handicap, hereditary disease, iatrogenic disease, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, illegality, illness, improbability, improperness, impropriety, inadmissibility, inapplicability, inappositeness, inappropriateness, inaptitude, inaptness, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indisposition, infectious disease, infelicity, infirmity, infraction, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, irregularity, irrelevance, irrelevancy, kink, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, maggot, maladjustment, malady, malaise, malformation, mania, mannerism, mental deficiency, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental illness, mental instability, mental sickness, mesalliance, mind overthrown, mindsickness, misalliance, misjoinder, misjoining, mismatch, morbidity, morbus, muscular disease, museum piece, neurological disease, nonconformity, nonesuch, nutritional disease, occupational disease, oddity, oddness, organic disease, pandemic disease, pathological condition, pathology, peculiarity, pixilation, plant disease, possession, prodigiosity, prodigy, protozoan disease, psychosomatic disease, queerness, quip, quirk, quirkiness, rabidness, rarity, reasonlessness, respiratory disease, rockiness, secondary disease, seediness, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickishness, sickness, signs, sinfulness, singularity, strange thing, strangeness, symptomatology, symptomology, symptoms, syndrome, the pip, trick, twist, unbalance, unbalanced mind, uncommonness, unconformity, uncongeniality, unconventionality, unfitness, unfittingness, unlawfulness, unnaturalness, unrighteousness, unsaneness, unseemliness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, unsuitability, unusualness, urogenital disease, violation, virus disease, wasting disease, whim, whimsicality, whimsy, wickedness, witlessness, worm disease, wrong, wrongfulness, wrongnessROGET THESAURUS
abnormality
Unconformity
N unconformity, nonconformity, unconformity, disconformity, unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly, anomalousness, exception, peculiarity, infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage, teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity, freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant, rouser, snorter, individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism, aberration, irregularity, variety, singularity, exemption, salvo, nonconformist, nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish, mongrel, random breed, half-caste, half-blood, half-breed, metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto, tertium quid, hermaphrodite, phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur, griffin, griffon, centaur, saggittary, kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent, mermaid, merman, merfolk, unicorn, Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders, teratology, fish out of water, neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring, one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand, outcast, outlaw, off the beaten track, oasis, uncomformable, exceptional, abnormal, abnormous, anomalous, anomalistic, out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element, irregular, arbitrary, teratogenic, lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton, peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious, out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run, beyond the pale of, out of the pale of, misplaced, funny, unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon, rare, curious, odd, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, strange, monstrous, wonderful, unexpected, unaccountable, outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy, queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis, unfashionable, fantastic, grotesque, bizarre, outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural, denaturalized, heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid, androgynous, androgynal, asymmetric, adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous, qualified, singular, unique, one-of-a-kind, newfangled, novel, non-classical, original, unconventional, unheard of, unfamiliar, undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unconformably, except, unless, save barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone, however, yet, but, once in a blue moon, once in a million years, Int, what on earth!, what in the world!, What the devil!, Holy cow!, Can you top that?, Sacre bleu, never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like, I could hardly believe it, I saw it, but I didn't believe it.For further exploring for "abnormality" in Webster Dictionary Online