单词 | abnormity |
释义 | abnormityn. 1. The quality of being abnormal or contrary to the ordinary rule or type; irregularity, deformity, monstrosity. Cf. abnormality n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > [noun] irregularship1577 irregularity1598 irregularness1609 irregulacy1645 anomaly1648 abnormity1724 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > condition of being abnormal or unnatural unkindnessc1390 unnaturalness?a1425 monstrosity1639 prodigiousness1649 preternaturality1666 preternaturalness1695 abnormity1724 unnaturalism1754 unnaturality1819 non-naturality1827 preternaturalism1834 non-naturalness1878 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Abnormity, mishapenness, hugeness. 1860 Biblical Repertory Jan. 10 We are not free from a suspicion that government implies moral abnormity, and depends on it; and we have words of divine revelation that seem to mean this. 1893 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 4 46 Criminal manifestations appear to him to be largely due to physical abnormity or disease. 1913 E. S. Kelley Chopin the Composer 1 On reviewing the epoch-making events of the eighteenth century, we find a condition of affairs startling in its abnormity. 2003 C. Harders in A. Jünemann Euro-Mediterranean Relations after September 11 iv. 62 Women's involvement in war and violence has often been perceived in terms of deviance and abnormity. 2. An abnormal or irregular form or feature; an instance or example of irregularity; a severe malformation. Cf. abnormality n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] > that which is abnormal enormitya1513 abnormity1822 abnormality1847 abnormal1857 deviant1927 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 515 We meet with a far less tendency to such abnormities, than in persons of lax and debilitated fibres. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 60/1 Without those capricious abnormities which so frequently offend us even in the buildings of Palladio. 1871 A. D. Whitney Real Folks (1872) xix. 258 An abnormity..like a calf born with two heads. 1895 Pop. Sci. Monthly July 394 Teratological abnormities resemble neuropathies..in their origin and the characteristics of their hereditability. 1927 O. Ammann in J. W. Doig Empire on Hudson (2000) 458 Let us consider it carefully before we lay before the world what might prove a structural and aesthetic abnormity. 1957 E. Kahler Tower & Abyss v. 177 It is too much in the line of general developments, of the boundless growth of artistic sensibility, to be considered a mere individual abnormity. 2007 Medicine 35 448/1 This congenital abnormality is characterized by a triad of urinary tract abnormities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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