abnormalistn.
/abˈnɔːməlɪst/, /abˈnɔːml̩ɪst/, /əbˈnɔːməlɪst/, /əbˈnɔːml̩ɪst/, U.S. /æbˈnɔrmələst/, /əbˈnɔrmələst/ rare.
A person concerned with or interested in unusual or abnormal things.
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1888 Esoteric 21 Mar. 371 They are brilliant abnormalists; the active power in them being mainly that of an occult natural intelligence.
1915 J. C. Powys Visions & Revisions 250 All the perverts and abnormalists whose various lapses and diseases become, in these books, mediums of spiritual insight.
1925 Burlington Mag. May 305/2 The mass of art lovers and connoisseurs denounced them [sc. the modernists] with a considerable show of reason as abnormalists.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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