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abnormality

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Fromabnormal +‎-ity.

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abnormality (countable anduncountable,pluralabnormalities)

  1. Thestate orquality of beingabnormal;variation;irregularity.[First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
    • 2015 May 26, “Taylor Swift: Pop stardom is made out to be harder than it is”, inBBC 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 "theabnormality of my life".
  2. Something abnormal; anaberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.[First attested in the mid 19th century.][1]
    • 1991,Brannon Braga, “Identity Crisis”, inStar Trek: The Next Generation, season 4, episode18, spoken by Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden):
      I want a full genetic analysis. We're going to examine anyabnormality we find no matter how insignificant it seems.
    • 2019 January 23, Susan Scutti, “Climate change will affect gender ratio among newborns, scientists say”, inCNN[2]:
      The factors that filter out who “gets through” from conception to birth include chromosomal or geneticabnormalities of the fetus or the mother’s stress response to changes in her environment, Catalano said.

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state of being abnormal
something abnormal
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References

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  1. 1.01.1Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnormality”, inThe Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford; New York, N.Y.:Oxford University Press,→ISBN, page 6.
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