Abnormity

Pronunciation

• US IPA: /æbˈnɔɹ.mɪ.ti/

Alternative forms

• (abnormality) abnormalcy
• (abnormality) abnormalism

Origin

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

Full definition of abnormity

Noun

1. (rare) First attested in the mid 18^th century.

• 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?
1. A monstrosity First attested in the mid 19^th century.