English noun: abnormality |
| 1. | abnormality (state) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies |
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| Synonyms | abnormalcy |
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| Broader (hypernym) | physical condition, physiological condition, physiological state |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, abrachia, acardia, acephalia, acephalism, acephaly, acorea, acromicria, acromikria, acromphalus, amastia, aneuploidy, anomalousness, anomaly, anorchia, anorchidism, anorchism, arrested development, asynclitism, atresia, atypicality, brachydactylia, brachydactyly, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy, cryptorchism, cyclopia, deviance, deviated septum, dextrocardia, dysplasia, ectrodactyly, erethism, fetal distress, fixation, foetal distress, gynecomastia, hepatomegaly, heterotaxy, hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, hydramnios, hydrocephalus, hydrocephaly, hypervitaminosis, hypospadias, infantile fixation, infantilism, inversion, irritation, lagophthalmos, macrencephaly, macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly, megalohepatia, mental abnormality, microbrachia, microcephalus, microcephaly, molar pregnancy, nanocephaly, nanophthalmos, obliquity, pachycheilia, palmature, phimosis, pneumothorax, progeria, regression, retroflection, retroflexion, retroversion, sequela, spinal curvature, squint, strabismus, subnormality, torticollis, transposition, untypicality, varix, wryneck |
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| Antonyms | normalcy, normality |
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| 2. | abnormality (cognition) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence |
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| Synonyms | mental defectiveness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | feeblemindedness |
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| 3. | abnormality (attribute) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal |
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| Synonyms | freakishness |
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| Broader (hypernym) | strangeness, unfamiliarity |
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| 4. | abnormality (act) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality |
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| Synonyms | irregularity |
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| Broader (hypernym) | misbehavior, misbehaviour, misdeed |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | deviance, deviation |
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