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What is the difference between anormal and abnormal?

anormal | abnormal |

Abnormal is a alternative form of anormal.



As adjectives the difference between anormal and abnormal

is that anormal is not according to rule; abnormal while abnormal is not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.

As a noun abnormal is

a person or object that is not normal.

anormal

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Not according to rule; abnormal.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    abnormal

    English

    Alternative forms

    * anormal * (obsolete) abnormous

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
  • * 1899 , (Arthur Conan Doyle), A Duet , ch. 6:
    • And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
  • Of or pertaining to that which is abnormal, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
  • * 1904 , (Jack London), The Sea Wolf , ch. 23:
    • Furuseth was right; I was abnormal , an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.

    Synonyms

    * aberrant, anomalous, atypical, exceptional, extraordinary, irregular, odd, strange, unusual.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or object that is not normal.

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