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Definitions: Abnormality |
AbnormalityNoun1. An abnormal condition. 2. Retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence. 3. Marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal. 4. Behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "abnormality" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1866. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Mathematics | In Italian usage, a measure of dissimilarity from the normal curve, somewhat similar to a measure of kurtosis. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: AbnormalitySynonyms: abnormal condition (n), abnormalcy (n), freakishness (n), irregularity (n), mental defectiveness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: normality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Sexuality | Perversion, deviation, sexual abnormality; fetish, fetishism; homosexuality, lesbianism, bisexuality; sodomy, buggery; pederasty; sadism. masochism, sado-masochism; incest. |
Unconformity | Noun: {opp. } nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; Adjective: exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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Screenplays | Maybe us cops could use some of that brand of abnormality. I learned more about this case in five minutes from him than I did from all of our photographs, tire prints and investigations. (In a Lonely Place; writing credit: Dorothy B. Hughes; Edmund H. North) | |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | An inherited corneal abnormality. (references) | |
Several factors may contribute to this mucus abnormality. (references) | ||
This abnormality is common in children with urinary infections. (references) | ||
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| "Abnormality" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Abnormality" is used about 285 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 285 | 17,262 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "abnormality": Cardiac abnormality ♦ chrosomal abnormality ♦ congenital abnormality ♦ genetic abnormality ♦ mental abnormality ♦ Previous Abnormality of Glucose Tolerance. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
chromosomal abnormality | 46 |
abnormality | 31 |
breast abnormality | 16 |
abnormality cell epithelial | 14 |
uterus abnormality | 13 |
abnormality chromosome | 12 |
genetic abnormality | 11 |
abnormality penis | 11 |
abnormality genital | 11 |
abnormality cord umbilical | 11 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "abnormality"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaan | afwyking (aberrance, aberration, abnormity, anomaly, deflection, deviation). (various references) | |
Albanian | anomali (anomaly), keqformim (malformation), gjendje jonormale. (various references) | |
Arabic | شذوذ (abecedarian, aberration, anomaly, anomie, eccentricity, exception, kink, oddity, quirk, sports). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | аномалия (anomaly). (various references) | |
Chinese | 反常性 (Abnormalities). (various references) | |
Czech | anomálie (anomaly), abnormálnost, nenormálnost, deformita (deformity). (various references) | |
Danish | anomali (anomaly), abnormitet (anomaly), abnormalitet, tilladt fejl (allowable defect, imperfection, permissible defect), misdannelse (deformity, dysmorphosis, malformation, vitium), malformation (deformity, dysmorphosis, malformation), deformitet (deformity, dysmorphosis, malformation). (various references) | |
Dutch | abnormaliteit (abnormity, anomaly). (various references) | |
Esperanto | abnormeco (abnormity), abnormaĵo (abnormity), nereguleco, nenormaleco, nenormalaĵo. (various references) | |
Finnish | viallisuus (defectiveness, deformity, faultiness, imperfect condition, imperfection), ei-normaalisuus. (various references) | |
French | anomalie. (various references) | |
German | Abnormalität (abnormity), Anomalie (aberration, abnormity, anomaly), Abweichung (aberrance, aberration, anomaly, azimuth, declination, deflection, departure, deviance, deviant, deviation, difference, differentiation, discrepancy, dissent, divergence, drift, excursion, mismatch, slip, systematic variation, tolerance, variance, variation). (various references) | |
Greek | ανωμαλία (abnormity, anomaly, complaint, disturbance, failure, irregularity, operating trouble, perturbation, roughness, scragginess, trouble, unevenness). (various references) | |
Hebrew | אי ורמליות, חרי'ות (exception, irregularity). (various references) | |
Hungarian | rendellenesség (anomaly, disease, disorder, irregularity), szörnyűség (enormity, horror, monstrosity, monstruosity), szörny (monster, monstrosity, monstruosity). (various references) | |
Icelandic | afbrigðileiki (abnormity), frábrigði (abnormity). (various references) | |
Indonesian | abnormalitas, ketidaknormalan, kelainan (anomaly, deviation). (various references) | |
Italian | anormalit , anomalia (anomaly, freak). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 異状 (aberration, accident, change, something wrong), 異常 (disorder, strangeness), 畸形 (deformity), 変調 (anomaly, change of tone, irregularity, modulation, variation), 変態 (metamorphosis, pervert, transformation), 変" . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | きけい (clever scheme, deformity, freak, original, tricks, wiles, witty, you), いじょう (aberration, above, accident, and up, as long as, assignment, beyond, change, disorder, enclosure, exceeding, greater than, more than, over, since, something wrong, strangeness, surrounding, the above-mentioned, the end, this is all, transfer, transferring to), へ"たい (formation, metamorphosis, pervert, transformation), へ"ちょう (anomaly, change of tone, irregularity, making too much of, modulation, overestimation, preponderance, variation). (various references) | |
Korean | 이상 (Abnormalities, Ideal). (various references) | |
Manx | neureiltys (abnormity), anreiltys (abnormity, anomaly). (various references) | |
Norwegian | abnormitet. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | abnormalityay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | anormalidade (anomaly, monster). (various references) | |
Romanian | anomalie (abnormity, anomaly, disturbance, heteroclite), deviere (aberration, deflection, deflexion, departure from, diversion, obliquity, swerve, warp). (various references) | |
Russian | аномалия (abnormity, anomaly, aperiodicity). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | abnormalnost, abnormalanost, nenormalnost (aberration, anomaly). (various references) | |
Spanish | anormalidad (anomaly), anomalía (aberration, anomaly). (various references) | |
Swedish | abnormitet (aberration, abnormity, anomaly, deformity, freak). (various references) | |
Turkish | anormallik (aberrance, aberrancy, abnormity, anomaly, perversion), olağandışılık (difference, uncommonness, unusualness). (various references) | |
Ukranian | ненормальність (anomaly), неправильність (anomaly, impropriety, irregularity, wrong), анормальність, аномалія (anomalism, anomaly), потворність (deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, eyesore, malformation, monstrosity, ugliness). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự không bình thường (abnormalcy, abnormity, anomaly), sự khác thường (abnormalcy, abnormity), sự dị thường vật kỳ quái (abnormalcy, abnormity), quái vật (abnormalcy, abnormity, monster, snark). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Abnormality" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: adnormality. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "abnormality" (pronounced a'bnôrma"lutē) |
| 8 | -ô r m a" l u t ē | formality. |
| 7 | -r m a" l u t ē | normality. |
| 6 | -m a" l u t ē | informality. |
| 5 | -a" l u t ē | actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, finality, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, individuality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, rationality, reality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, accountability, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, credulity, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, equality, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, fidelity, flammability, flexibility, fragility, frivolity, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, incredulity, indestructibility, inequality, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, infidelity, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, polity, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, quality, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, seasonality, senility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-b-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
-2 letters: amorality, antilabor, baritonal, laminator, myrobalan, normality. | |
-3 letters: ablation, abnormal, animator, banality, baronial, brantail, laminary, manorial, matronal, matronly, minatory, molarity, morainal, morality, notarial, rational. | |
-4 letters: airboat, alation, alimony, almonry, amatory, amboina, amboyna, amiably, anality, anatomy, animato, anomaly, bairnly, boatman, laminar, laniary, marital, martial, martian, matinal, mayoral, nombril, notably, orality, orbital, ratably, riantly, taborin, tamarin, timbral. | |
-5 letters: abator, aboral, airman, albino, aliyot, amatol, ambari, ambary, amoral, amrita, animal, antiar, antral, aortal, aroint, aroynt, artily, atonal, atrial, baalim, bailor, bantam, barman, barony, baryon, baryta, batman, bayamo, bayman, binary, bonita, botany, brainy, briony, bromal, bromin, intomb, lamina, lariat, latino, latria, layman, litany, mainly, maloti, manila, manito, mantra, marbly, marina, marlin, martin, matron, mitral, mortal, narial, nimbly, normal, notary, obtain, oilman, rabato, ramtil, ratany, ration, ratlin, rialto, tailor, talion, tamari, tarnal, timbal, tombal, tribal, trilby, trimly, trinal, tymbal, yantra. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-b-i-l-m-n-o-r-t-y" | |
+4 letters: combinatorially, incomparability. | |
+5 letters: noncomparability. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)41 62 6E 6F 72 6D 61 6C 69 74 79 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).- -... -. --- .-. -- .- .-.. .. - -.--. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000001 01100010 01101110 01101111 01110010 01101101 01100001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)A b n o r m a l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0041 0062 006E 006F 0072 006D 0061 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3568808184796778758691 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Quotations: Non-fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Derivations 12. Rhymes | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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