| Main Entry: | abnormality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being different from standard or norm |
Synonyms: |
aberrancy, aberration, anomalism, anomaly, atypicalness, bizarreness, deformity, deviance, deviancy, deviation, eccentricity, exception, extraordinariness, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, preternaturalness, singularity, strangeness, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
Antonyms: |
normality, normalness, sameness, standard |
| Main Entry: | anomaly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation from normal, usual |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy |
Antonyms: |
conformity, normality, regularity, standard, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | birth defect |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | congenital abnormality |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, congenital anomaly, congenital defect, congenital malformation, deformity, disability, mutation |
| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, corruption, crookedness, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, grossness, hideousness, impairment, injury, irregularity, knot, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, ugliness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness, warp |
Antonyms: |
beauty, grace, shapeliness |
| Main Entry: | eccentricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bizarreness, unusualness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
Antonyms: |
commonality, dullness, normality, regularness, standard, uniformity, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | malformation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity |
Synonyms: |
abberation, abnormality, defect, disfigurement, impairment, injury, malconformation, misshape, monstrosity, mutation |
| Main Entry: | monster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giant animal; supernatural being |
Synonyms: |
Frankenstein, abnormality, barbarian, beast, behemoth, brute, centaur, colossus, demon, devil, dragon, fiend, freak, giant, hellion, horror, leviathan, lusus naturae, mammoth, miscreation, monstrosity, mutant, ogre, phoenix, savage, titan, villain, werewolf, whale |
| Main Entry: | monstrosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freak |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, atrocity, deformity, dreadfulness, enormity, eyesore, freakishness, frightfulness, grotesqueness, heinousness, hideousness, horror, monster, mutant, mutation |
| Main Entry: | mutant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutation |
Synonyms: |
abnormality, deformity, deviation, freak, freak of nature, monster |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, crack-up, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, maladjustment, mental illness, neurasthenia, obsession, personality disorder, phobia, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
Antonyms: |
adjustment, balance, sanity |