abnormalcy

noun

abnormalcy

noun

US /æbˈnɔɹ.ml̩.si/

Etymology From abnormal + -cy, by analogy with normalcy.

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Synonym of abnormality.

  • Both the abnormalcy of the conditions and the subject's insensitivity to their abnormalcy are understandable.2009, Jarrett Leplin, A Theory of Epistemic Justification, page 29:
  • […] Capitalism was not a normalcy but an abnormalcy.1922, G.K. Chesterton, What I Saw In America:
Synonyms
abnormality, weirdness, aberrant, outlier

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