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Definition of Abnormalcy
1. Noun. An abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies.
Specialized synonyms: Acardia, Acephalia, Acephalism, Acephaly, Acorea, Acromicria, Acromikria, Acromphalus, Amastia, Aneuploidy, Anorchia, Anorchidism, Anorchism, Asynclitism, Obliquity, Atresia, Brachydactylia, Brachydactyly, Cryptorchidism, Cryptorchidy, Cryptorchism, Deviated Septum, Dextrocardia, Ectrodactyly, Erethism, Fetal Distress, Foetal Distress, Hepatomegaly, Megalohepatia, Inversion, Heterotaxy, Transposition, Pneumothorax, Macrencephaly, Hydatid Mole, Hydatidiform Mole, Molar Pregnancy, Hydramnios, Hypervitaminosis, Hypospadias, Lagophthalmos, Mental Abnormality, Nanophthalmos, Palmature, Dysplasia, Hydrocephalus, Hydrocephaly, Abrachia, Progeria, Atypicality, Untypicality, Arrested Development, Fixation, Infantile Fixation, Regression, Aberrance, Aberrancy, Aberration, Deviance, Cyclopia, Spinal Curvature, Subnormality, Anomalousness, Anomaly, Gynecomastia, Infantilism, Macrocephaly, Megacephaly, Megalocephaly, Microbrachia, Microcephalus, Microcephaly, Nanocephaly, Pachycheilia, Phimosis, Irritation, Retroflection, Retroflexion, Retroversion, Sequela, Squint, Strabismus, Torticollis, Wryneck, Varix
Generic synonyms: Physical Condition, Physiological Condition, Physiological State
Derivative terms: Abnormal
Antonyms: Normality
Definition of Abnormalcy
1. Noun. The quality or state of being abnormal. ¹
2. Noun. Something that is abnormal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abnormalcy
Literary usage of Abnormalcy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"Its title is "abnormalcy." Another regarding the "Emergency Tariff" gives a more
enlightening analysis of this complex problem than any editorial I have yet ..."
2. What I Saw in America by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"Capitalism was not a normalcy but an abnormalcy. Property is normal, and is more
normal in proportion as it is universal. Slavery may be normal and even ..."
3. The Farm Bureau Movement by Orville Merton Kile (1921)
"... cooperative rights challenges all other peoples to come with him—and through
nation-wide and world-wide cooperation replace abnormalcy with normalcy. ..."
4. Personal Salvation: A Treatment of the Doctrines of Conversion and Christian by Edward Norton Cantwell (1903)
"Pardon, by which the soul is entirely purged of guilt, does not at all affect
the abnormalcy (depravity, disease) of nature into which the soul had fallen, ..."
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