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Abnormality   /ˌæbnɔrmˈæləti/   Listen
Abnormality

noun
(pl. abnormalities)
1.
An abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies.  Synonym: abnormalcy.
2.
Retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence.  Synonym: mental defectiveness.
3.
Marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal.  Synonym: freakishness.
4.
Behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality.  Synonym: irregularity.



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"Abnormality" Quotes from Famous Books



... in an abnormal family environment, whether that abnormality arises from the birth of the child or the maladjusted personality of a parent, is the type of child which may later seek compensation in irregular sexual behaviour. But the child who, during its early years, lives in an environment where ...
— Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents - The Mazengarb Report (1954) • Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.
... the very dramatic abnormality of it, in altering the sensitiveness of those physical tracts from which attention is withdrawn or in producing physical effects through suggestive focusing, has helped us to understand the part which attention plays in the flux of physical states, so our later studies of the subconscious ...
— Modern Religious Cults and Movements • Gaius Glenn Atkins
... position requires the skill of a harlequin. It is an abnormality that any man should long tower ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators • Elbert Hubbard


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