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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Abnormal \Ab*nor"mal\, a. [For earlier anormal.F. anormal, LL anormalus for anomalus, Gr ?. Confused with L. abnormis See {Anomalous}, {Abnormous}, {Anormal}.] Not conformed to rule or system; deviating from the type anomalous; irregular. ``That deviating from the type anomalous; irregular. '' --Froude. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: abnormal adj 1: not normal; not typical or usual or regular or conforming to a norm; "abnormal powers of concentration"; "abnormal amounts of rain"; "abnormal circumstances"; "an abnormal interest in food" [ant: {normal}] 2: (psychology) departing from the normal in e.g. intelligence and development; "they were heartbroken when they learned their child was abnormal"; "an abnormal personality" [ant: {normal}] 3: much greater than the normal; "abnormal profits"; "abnormal ambition" From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: ABNORMAL, adj Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.
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