abnormality vs subnormality

abnormality and subnormality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
abnormality	Yes	No	No	No
subnormality	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, subnormality is a hypernym of abnormality; that is, subnormality is a word with a broader meaning than abnormality:

abnormality: retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
subnormality: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

Other hypernyms of abnormality include backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness.

As nouns, subnormality is a hyponym of abnormality; that is, subnormality is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than abnormality:

abnormality: an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies
subnormality: the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence)

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, anomalousness, anomaly, gynecomastia, infantilism, macrocephaly, megacephaly, megalocephaly, microbrachia, microcephalus, microcephaly, nanocephaly, pachycheilia, phimosis, irritation, retroflection, retroflexion, retroversion, sequela, squint, strabismus, torticollis, wryneck, varix.

abnormality (noun)	subnormality (noun)
behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality	lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal	the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence)
retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies

abnormality vs subnormality

abnormality and subnormality both are nouns.

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