Abnormal

//ˈæbˌnɔɹ.ml̩//

Definitions

1
Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.
And then after an abnormal meal, which was either a very late breakfast or a very early lunch, they drove on to Victoria Station.
Similar
aberrant anomalous atypical
2
Of or pertaining to that which is irregular, in particular, behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.
Furuseth was right; I was abnormal, an "emotionless monster," a strange bookish creature, capable of pleasuring in sensations only of the mind.

1
A person or object that is not normal.

Word Origin

From ab- + normal. First attested in 1835, replacing the earlier anormal and even earlier abnormous, from Latin abnormis (“departing from normal”), from either (ab- (“away from”) + norma (“rule, norm”...

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