abnormalismn.
/abˈnɔːməlɪz(ə)m/, /əbˈnɔːməlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /æbˈnɔrməˌlɪz(ə)m/, /əbˈnɔrməˌlɪz(ə)m/ Now rare.
The condition of being, or tendency to be, abnormal. Also: an abnormal state or condition.
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the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun]
outrageoustya1425
enormitya1538
extravagancy1651
spuriousness1674
anormality1836
abnormality1850
abnormalism1851
1851 New Church Repository & Monthly Rev. June 279 The mixing up of the precious truths of the New Dispensation with the outbreaks and abnormalisms so rife at the present day.
1852 New Church Repository & Monthly Rev. Dec. 537 As if every species of spiritual or psychical abnormalism were to find a home in its bosom.
1894 Thinker 5 536 If it were so [sc. that the organism was nothing more than the creature of environment] one would have expected..that abnormalism would be more frequent.
1900 G. M. Gould & W. L. Pyle Anomalies & Curiosities Med. ii. 50 This abnormalism [sc. extrauterine pregnancy] has been known as long as there has been any real knowledge of obstetrics.
1907 Daily Chron. 24 Dec. 1/7 Dr. Hirschfeld, a ‘specialist in abnormalism’, withdrew the evidence he had given against Count Moltke.
1929 Condor 31 137/1 We have cited examples of various abnormalisms in the coloring of birds—albinism, melanism, xanthochroism and erythrism.
2001 F. de Jong tr. H. Jansen Constr. Urban Past iv. viii. 219 In the case of the singular causal imputation, that which is ‘normal’ is not a condition for the abnormal cause; this is the case for abnormalism.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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