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abnormity

[ ab-nawr-mi-tee ]

noun

plural abnormities.
  1. an abnormal condition, quality, etc.; abnormality; irregularity.


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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of abnormity1

1725–35; < Late Latin ²¹²ú²Ô´Ç°ù³¾¾±³ÙÄå²õ, equivalent to abnorm ( is ) ( ab- ab- + norm ( a ) rule, norm + -is adj. suffix) + -¾±³ÙÄå²õ -ity
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Example Sentences

The reason is, that fair hair and blue eyes are in themselves a variation from the type, almost an abnormity, analogous to white mice, or at least to grey horses.

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Nietzsche may seem to you, as he has seemed to so many, a hopeless abnormity; but his Titanism is in fact a wayward modern expression of a motive that has always played its notable part in the search for salvation, ever since heroism and the resolute will were first discovered by man.

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And just therein lay the secret of her attraction—in this imprint of vice, of depravity, of abnormity in her appearance, her attitudes and her words.

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All evil-doers, murderers, etc., are prompted to the mischief they do by some abnormity in their brains, or by some powerful egotistic motive, as jealousy, revenge, greed, ambition, etc.; but the temptation is always material—a benefit they want to secure by their crime—never a spiritual Devil.

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Dr. Langenbeck mentions a family of Silesian peasants who seemed to have an hereditary predisposition to the abnormity known as microcephalism, or small-headedness.

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