abnormality

English

Etymology

abnormal +‎ -ity

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˌæbˌnɔɹˈmæl.ət.i/, /ˌæbˌnɔɹˈmæl.ɪt.i/, /ˌæbˌnɚˈmæl.ət.i/, /ˌæbˌnɚˈmæl.ɪt.i/
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Noun

abnormality (countable and uncountable, plural abnormalities)

The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.][1]
- 2015 May 26, “Taylor Swift: Pop stardom is made out to be harder than it is”, in BBC News‎:
  Taylor said that her fame makes her "sometimes" miss the normality of being able to hang out with friends but that she's had to get used to "the abnormality of my life".
Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature. [First attested in the mid 19^th century.][1]
- 1991, Brannon Braga, “Identity Crisis”, in Star Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode 18, spoken by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden):
  I want a full genetic analysis. We're going to examine any abnormality we find no matter how insignificant it seems.

Synonyms

(state of being abnormal): abnormalcy, anomalousness, enormity, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
(something abnormal): aberrant, deviant, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

Antonyms

normality

Related terms

abnormalcy
abnormalism
abnormity

Translations

state of being abnormal

Asturian: anormalidá f
Bulgarian: неправилност (bg) (nepravilnost), необичайност (bg) (neobičajnost), ненормалност (bg) (nenormalnost)
Catalan: anormalitat (ca) f
Czech: abnormalita (cs) f
Dutch: abnormaliteit (nl) m
Finnish: poikkeavuus (fi)
French: anomalie (fr) f, anormalité (fr) f
Galician: anormalidade (gl) f
German: Abweichung (de), Abnormalität (de) f
Interlingua: anormalitate
Irish: ainspiantacht f, anchúinseacht f, éanormalacht f, mínormáltacht f, sonraíocht f
Italian: anomalia (it) f
Latvian: nenormālums m, nenormālība f, neparastums m, neparastība f
Manx: neureiltys m
Norwegian:
Bokmål: abnormitet (no) m
Polish: anormalność (pl) f, nienormalność (pl) f
Portuguese: anormalidade (pt), anomalia (pt)
Romanian: anormalitate (ro) f
Russian: ненорма́льность (ru) f (nenormálʹnostʹ), непра́вильность (ru) f (neprávilʹnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: абнорма́лно̄ст f
Roman: abnormálnōst (sh) f
Slovene: àbnormálnost f
Spanish: anormalidad (es) f
Tagalog: abnormalidad
Turkish: anormallik (tr)

something abnormal

Asturian: anormalidá f
Catalan: anormalitat (ca) f
Czech: abnormalita (cs) f
Dutch: abnormaliteit (nl) m, afwijking (nl) m, misvorming (nl) m
Esperanto: anomalio
Galician: anormalidade (gl) f
German: Abnormalität (de) f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: abnormitet (no) m
Polish: anormalność (pl) f, nienormalność (pl) f
Romanian: anormalitate (ro) f
Russian: анома́лия (ru) f (anomálija)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: абнорма́лно̄ст f
Roman: abnormálnōst (sh) f
Slovene: àbnormálnost f

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Translations to be checked

Vietnamese: ^{(please verify)} sự không bình thường, ^{(please verify)} sự khác thường, ^{(please verify)} sự dị thường, ^{(please verify)} vật kỳ quái, ^{(please verify)} quái vật (vi)

References

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnormality”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.

[SOED-1] Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief; William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnormality”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.