An abnormality in something, especially in a person's body or behaviour, is an unusual part or feature of it that may be worrying or dangerous.
[formal]
Further scans are required to confirm the diagnosis of an abnormality.
Genetic abnormalities are more often associated with faults in paternal DNA thanin maternal DNA.
Synonyms: strangeness, deviation, eccentricity, aberration More Synonyms of abnormality
More Synonyms of abnormality
abnormality in British English
(ˌæbnɔːˈmælɪtɪ)
nounWord forms: plural-ties
1.
an abnormal feature, event, etc
2.
deviation from the typical or usual; irregularity
abnormality in American English
(ˌæbnɔrˈmæləti)
noun
1.
the quality or condition of being abnormal
2. Word forms: pluralˌabnorˈmalities
an abnormal thing; malformation
Examples of 'abnormality' in a sentence
abnormality
There is so much that we need to understand about what drives cells and what goes wrong and causes genetic abnormalities or tumours.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
Two of the bodies had extreme congenital abnormalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
An ultrasound failed to detect any abnormalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The chances of turning up an irrelevant but worrying abnormality are fairly high.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Or to screen out any genetic abnormalities?
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Other early work was done on the use of profound hypothermia to enable the surgery of congenital paediatric abnormalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
What is very unlikely in Britain is an end to the exception for foetal abnormality.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
This includes miscarriage, stillbirth and congenital abnormalities.
MacIntyre, Anne M. E. Post-Viral Fatigue Syndrome - How To Live With It (1989)
In some cases recurrence is a symptom of a congenital abnormality, which may need surgery.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
Her condition was spotted at six days old when a test in her native Hungary showed blood abnormalities.
The Sun (2010)
If and when an abnormality is detected, treatment or lifestyle advice may be given to the patient.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
The effect of age on the risk of congenital abnormalities appears to be shared between the parents, too.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
If you still were not sure, the baddies were often given physical abnormalities to go alongside their moral defects.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
In the circus's enterprise culture, physical abnormality could be turned to account.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
Nearly 30 per cent of pregnant women are overweight or obese, causing complications including stillbirth and foetal abnormalities.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
If they were allowed to breed, the offspring would be prone to genetic abnormalities and liable to illness, he said.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Women have been aware of the higher likelihood of genetic abnormalities including Down's syndrome connected to age for decades but the fortysomething mums carry on.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
In other languages
abnormality
British English: abnormality NOUN
An abnormality in something, especially in a person's body or behaviour, is an unusual part or feature of it that may be worrying or dangerous.
Further scans are required to confirm the diagnosis of an abnormality.
American English: abnormality
Brazilian Portuguese: anormalidade
Chinese: 异常 >尤指人的身体或行为中令人担忧或危险性的特征
European Spanish: anomalía
French: anomalie
German: Abnormität
Italian: anomalia
Japanese: 異常
Korean: 기형
European Portuguese: anormalidade
Latin American Spanish: anomalía
Chinese translation of 'abnormality'
abnormality
(æbnɔːˈmælɪtɪ)
n
(u) (= abnormal nature) 变(變)态(態) (biàntài)
(c) (= abnormal feature) 异(異)常 (yìcháng)
1 (noun)
Further scans are required to confirm any abnormality.
Synonyms
strangeness
the breathy strangeness of the music
deviation
eccentricity
She is unusual to the point of eccentricity.
aberration
peculiarity
the peculiarity of her behaviour
idiosyncrasy
One of his idiosyncrasies was to wear orange gloves.
irregularity
weirdness
singularity
his abrupt, turbulent style and the singularity of his appearance
oddness
waywardness
unorthodoxy
unexpectedness
queerness
unnaturalness
bizarreness
unusualness
extraordinariness
aberrance
atypicalness
uncommonness
untypicalness
curiousness
2 (noun)
Genetic abnormalities are sometimes associated with paternal DNA.
Synonyms
anomaly
Their wariness of opera is an anomaly in Europe.
flaw
rarity
deviation
a clear example of deviation from the norm
oddity
Her book remains something of an oddity.
aberration
The incident was not just an aberration, not just a single incident.
exception
an exception to the usual rule
peculiarity
deformity
fewer instances of physical deformities
irregularity
charges arising from alleged financial irregularities
malformation
Additional synonyms
in the sense of aberrance
Synonyms
abnormality,
anomaly,
deviation,
eccentricity,
deviance,
variance,
peculiarity,
divergence,
irregularity,
oddness
in the sense of aberration
Definition
a sudden change from what is normal, accurate, or correct
The incident was not just an aberration, not just a single incident.