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What is the difference between abnormity and abnormality?

abnormity | abnormality | Alternative forms |

Abnormality is a alternative form of abnormity.



As nouns the difference between abnormity and abnormality

is that abnormity is {{alternate form of |abnormality|lang=en} while abnormality is the state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.

abnormity

English

Alternative forms

* (abnormality) abnormalcy * (abnormality) abnormalism

Noun

(abnormities)
  • (rare)
  • * 1893 , Adeline Dutton Train Whitney, [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/13997 Real Folks] :
  • Why do critics—some of them—make such short, smart work,—such cheerful, confident despatch, nowadays, of a story with religion in it, as if it were an abnormity ,—a thing with sentence of death in itself, like a calf born with two heads,—that needs not their trouble, save to name it as it is?
  • A monstrosity
  • References

    abnormality

    English

    Alternative forms

    * abnormalcy * abnormalism * abnormity

    Noun

  • The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity.
  • Something abnormal; an aberration; an abnormal occurrence or feature.
  • Antonyms

    * normality

    References