Definitions for: Abnormality


[n] behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
[n] marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
[n] retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
[n]



Webster (1913) Definition: Ab`nor*mal"i*ty, n.; pl. Abnormalities.
1. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation;
irregularity. --Darwin.

2. Something abnormal.

Synonyms: abnormal condition, abnormalcy, freakishness, irregularity, mental defectiveness

Antonyms: normalcy, normality

See Also: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abrachia, acardia, acephalia, acephalism, acephaly, acorea, acromicria, acromikria, acromphalus, amastia, aneuploidy, anomalousness, anomaly, anorchia, anorchidism, anorchism, arrested development, asynclitism, atresia, atypicality, backwardness, brachydactylia, brachytactyly, condition, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy, cryptorchism, cyclopia, deviance, deviance, deviated septum, deviation, dextrocardia, dysplasia, ectrodactyly, erethism, feeblemindedness, fetal distress, fixation, foetal distress, gynecomastia, hepatomegaly, heterotaxy, hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, hydramnios, hydrocephalus, hydrocephaly, hypervitaminosis, hypospadias, infantile fixation, infantilism, inversion, irritation, lagophthalmos, macrencephaly, macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly, megalohepatia, mental abnormality, mental retardation, microbrachia, microcephalus, microcephaly, misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed, molar pregnancy, nanocephaly, nanophthalmos, obliquity, pachycheilia, palmature, phimosis, pneumothorax, progeria, regression, retardation, retroflection, retroflexion, retroversion, sequela, slowness, spinal curvature, status, strangeness, subnormality, subnormality, transposition, unfamiliarity, untypicality

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