abnormity

abnormity

English

Etymology

From Late Latin abnormitas, from Latin abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æbˈnɔɹ.mɪ.ti/

Noun

abnormity (countable and uncountable, plural abnormities)

1. (rare) Alternative form of abnormality [First attested in the mid 18^th 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?

   • 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.

2. A monstrosity [First attested in the mid 19^th century.][1]

Translations

departure from the ordinary type

Dutch: abnormaliteit (nl) m Greek: ανωμαλία (el) f (anomalía), τερατούργημα (el) n (teratoúrgima) Norwegian: Bokmål: abnormitet (no) m Nynorsk: abnormitet m

Romanian: nenormalitate f, abnormalitate f

References

1. “abnormity” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.