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Abnormity
//æbˈnɔɹ.mɪ.ti// noun
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Noun
- 1 Alternative form of abnormality alt-of, alternative, countable, rare, uncountable
"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?"
- 2 A monstrosity countable, uncountable
Etymology
From abnorm(al) + -ity, from Late Latin abnormitas, from Latin abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.
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