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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

... keep on that you don't want an expensive midwife?" she was saying at the moment when Shatov came in. "That's perfect nonsense, it's a false idea arising from the abnormality of your condition. In the hands of some ordinary old woman, some peasant midwife, you'd have fifty chances of going wrong and then you'd have more bother and expense than with a regular midwife. How do you know I am an expensive ...

— The Possessed - or, The Devils • Fyodor Dostoyevsky

... fairly energetic Kinetic is probably the nearest thing to that ideal our earthly anthropologists have in mind when they speak of the "Normal" human being. The very definition of the Poietic class involves a certain abnormality. ...

— A Modern Utopia • H. G. Wells

... the part of Freud's theory from which you dissent most strongly. Freud says that as soon as you enter the intimate life of a patient you begin to find sex in some form. In fact, the best indication of abnormality would be its absence. Sex is one of the strongest of human impulses, yet the one subjected to the greatest repression. For that reason it is the weakest point in our cultural development. In a normal life, he says, there are no neuroses. Let me proceed now with what the Freudists ...

— The Dream Doctor • Arthur B. Reeve

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