abnormity

English

abnorm(al) +‎ -ity, from Late Latin abnormitas, from Latin abnormis (“irregular, abnormal”), from ab + norm (“rule, pattern”). See also abnormous.

abnormity (countable and uncountable, plural abnormities)

(rare) Alternative form of abnormality [First attested in the mid 18^th century.][1]
- 1893, Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, Real Folks‎:
  Why do critics—some of them—make such short, smart work,—such cheerful, confident despatch, nowadays, of a story with religion in it, as if it were an abnormity,—a thing with sentence of death in itself, like a calf born with two heads,—that needs not their trouble, save to name it as it is?
- 2017, Xinhua News, China says launch of Long March-5 Y2 "unsuccessful"‎:
  Abnormity was detected during the flight of the rocket, which blasted off at 7:23 p.m. Sunday from Wenchang Space Launch Center in southern province of Hainan.
A monstrosity [First attested in the mid 19^th century.][1]

(abnormality—state of being abnormal): abnormality, weirdness; see also Thesaurus:strangeness
(abnormality—something that is abnormal): aberrant; outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

departure from the ordinary type

Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “abnormity”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 6.

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