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abnormality vs anomaly

anomaly vs abnormality

abnormality and anomaly both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
abnormality Yes No No No
anomaly Yes No No No
As nouns, anomaly is a hyponym of abnormality; that is, anomaly is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than abnormality:
  • abnormality: an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
  • anomaly: deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
Other hyponyms of abnormality include acardia, acephalia, acephalism, acephaly, acorea, acromicria, acromikria, acromphalus, amastia, aneuploidy, anorchia, anorchidism, anorchism, asynclitism, obliquity, atresia, brachydactylia, brachydactyly, cryptorchidism, cryptorchidy, cryptorchism, deviated septum, dextrocardia, ectrodactyly, erethism, fetal distress, foetal distress, hepatomegaly, megalohepatia, inversion, heterotaxy, transposition, pneumothorax, macrencephaly, hydatid mole, hydatidiform mole, molar pregnancy, hydramnios, hypervitaminosis, hypospadias, lagophthalmos, mental abnormality, nanophthalmos, palmature, dysplasia, hydrocephalus, hydrocephaly, abrachia, progeria, atypicality, untypicality, arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression, aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance, cyclopia, spinal curvature, subnormality, anomalousness, gynecomastia, infantilism, macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly, microbrachia, microcephalus, microcephaly, nanocephaly, pachycheilia, phimosis, irritation, retroflection, retroflexion, retroversion, sequela, squint, strabismus, torticollis, wryneck, varix.
abnormality (noun) anomaly (noun)
behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality (astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal a person who is unusual
retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
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