nounplural noun abnormities

• 1An abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence.

  ‘tests for abnormities’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Smear tests will still be used to test for abnormities after the HPV vaccine is introduced.’
  • ‘Are these feathers legitimate, or is the whole thing an abnormity?’
  • ‘Two techniques are regularly used in screening assessment to establish the nature of a confirmed abnormity.’
  • ‘The asparagus or sweet potato stem occasionally broadens out into a ribbon, and it passes as an abnormity.’
  • ‘Let us consider it carefully before we lay before the world what might prove a structural and aesthetic abnormity.’

  Synonyms

  mutant, mutation, freak, freak of nature, monster, abortion, malformation

  1. 1.1mass noun The quality or state of being abnormal.
     ‘abnormity of the abdomen’
     More example sentences

     • ‘Criminal manifestations appear to him to be largely due to physical abnormity or disease.’
     • ‘On reviewing the epoch-making events of the eighteenth century, we find a condition of affairs startling in its abnormity.’
     • ‘Women's involvement in war and violence has often been perceived in terms of deviance and abnormity.’
     • ‘The same author speaks of the nails frequently showing evidences of abnormity in connection with either absence or superabundance of hair.’
     • ‘The first question asks us to decide what type of mind is a potential criminal, or what degree of abnormity a man must have to be a criminal.’