English

Alternative forms

• (abnormality): abnormalcy
• (abnormality): abnormalism

Noun

abnormity ‎(plural abnormities)

1. (rare) Alternative form of abnormality [First attested in the mid 18^th century.]^[1]
   • 1893, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks:

     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 [First attested in the mid 19^th century.]^[1]

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References

1. 1 2 Lesley Brown (editor), The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition (Oxford University Press, 2003 [1933], ISBN 978-0-19-860575-7), page 6