Definition of Abnormalcy

1. Noun. An abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies.


Definition of Abnormalcy

1. Noun. The quality or state of being abnormal. ¹

2. Noun. Something that is abnormal. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Abnormalcy

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abnet
abnets
abneural
abnodation
abnormal
abnormal condition
abnormal correspondence
abnormal heart chamber dimensions
abnormal occlusion
abnormal placental size
abnormal psychologies
abnormal psychology
abnormalcies
abnormalcy (current term)
abnormalise
abnormalised
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abnormalising
abnormalism
abnormality
abnormalize
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abnormalizing
abnormally
abnormalness
abnormals

Literary usage of Abnormalcy

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
"Its title is "abnormalcy." Another regarding the "Emergency Tariff" gives a more enlightening analysis of this complex problem than any editorial I have yet ..."

2. What I Saw in America by Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1922)
"Capitalism was not a normalcy but an abnormalcy. Property is normal, and is more normal in proportion as it is universal. Slavery may be normal and even ..."

3. The Farm Bureau Movement by Orville Merton Kile (1921)
"... cooperative rights challenges all other peoples to come with him—and through nation-wide and world-wide cooperation replace abnormalcy with normalcy. ..."

4. Personal Salvation: A Treatment of the Doctrines of Conversion and Christian by Edward Norton Cantwell (1903)
"Pardon, by which the soul is entirely purged of guilt, does not at all affect the abnormalcy (depravity, disease) of nature into which the soul had fallen, ..."

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