abnormality

From abnormal +‎ -ity.

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

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abnormality (countable and uncountable, plural abnormalities)

1. 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^[1]:

     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".

2. 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.

   • 2019 January 23, Susan Scutti, “Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or genetic abnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said.

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

• normality

• abnormalcy
• abnormalism
• abnormity