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Definition of abnormality :
1. Something abnormal.
2. The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
Synonyms:
contortion, abnormalcy, good, deviance, aberrancy, geometrical irregularity, freak, constipation, mental defectiveness, deformity, unnaturalness, rarity, malformation, unregularity, usual, deviancy, preternaturalness, abnormal condition
difference (part of speech: noun)
discrepancy, distinctness, diversity, conflict, dissimilarity, variety, mismatch, contradiction, clash, disunity, variation, contrast, disparity, asymmetry, counterpoint, non-uniformity, inequality, variance, distinction, dissemblance
unconformity (part of speech: noun)
derangement, impropriety, idiosyncrasy, incongruity, freakishness, quirkiness, eccentricity, inconsistency, incompatibility, oddity, strangeness, divergence, unfamiliarity, peculiarity, aberrance, nonconformity, deviation, uniqueness, outlandishness, difference, curiosity, aberration, singularity, uncommonness, irregularity, unconventionality, exception, anomaly, funniness
Usage examples:
- The milk or the meat from diseased animals may give no visible sign of abnormality. - "Food Poisoning", Edwin Oakes Jordan.
- It is possible, of course, to say that these thus named are spirit mediums as necessary for the transfer of suggestion from the discarnate order as mediums seem to be in the incarnate order, and that abnormal personalities are as much needed on one side as the other through the abnormality of the whole process. - "Modern Religious Cults and Movements", Gaius Glenn Atkins.
- There was a lightness upon us- an abnormal feeling of weight- loss- a feeling of indefinable abnormality to the rocks. - "The White Invaders", Raymond King Cummings.