atypicaladj.
/eɪˈtɪpɪkəl//aˈtɪpɪkəl/ Not typical; not conformable to the ordinary type.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adjective] > not typical
atypicala1883
subtypical1888
a1883 C. H. Fagge Princ. & Pract. Med. (1886) I. 100 Carcinomata can be..distinguished from other epithelial growths by their being ‘atypical’.
1916 Times 25 Oct. 7/3 The cases up to this time were mostly mild and atypical.
1935 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 1 152 The stations in Crimea and Transcaucasia..have yielded exclusively rather atypical flake implements.
1959 B. Wootton Social Sci. & Social Pathol. v. 161 Criminologists have interested themselves more in the heavy incidence of crime upon the young than in the relatively atypical late entrants.
Derivatives
atypiˈcality n. the quality of not being typical.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [noun] > quality of being atypical
atypicality1957
1957 Archivum Linguisticum 9 83 The atypicality of -o in feminines.
aˈtypically adv. in an atypical manner.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or extraordinary > [adverb] > in an atypical manner
atypically1917
1917 C. R. Payne tr. O. Pfister Psychoanalytic Method xi. 292 I have also found the serpent atypically as allusion to the pretendedly poisonous tongue of the wife.
1918 Sat. Westm. Gaz. 13 Apr. 11/1 She,..something atypically for a woman, appears to be more interested in places than people.
1964 S. Duke-Elder Parsons' Dis. Eye (ed. 14) xiv. 143 Three atypically large viruses of ophthalmic interest.
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