IRREGULARITIES Synonyms: 38 Similar and Opposite Words

irregularities

noun

plural of irregularity

as in abnormalities

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Noun

After her annual mammogram showed abnormalities, Oteri hadn’t initially been concerned.

— Eileen Finan, PEOPLE, 26 Aug. 2026
The scan would serve as an additional safeguard, since breast MRIs can detect abnormalities that mammograms miss.

— Lauren Sausser, Miami Herald, 26 Aug. 2026

Definition of abnormalities

Noun

Leverage, funding fragility and severe distortions in capital allocation can do far more lasting economic damage than modest deviations of inflation or employment from target.

— Joao Gomes, Fortune, 25 Aug. 2026
Lamont sees greater potential for distortions in individual names and corners of the market favored by retail traders.

— Lisa Kim,Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 17 Aug. 2026

Definition of distortions

Noun

Another approach would be to make electrolytes with fewer internal defects and extremely low electronic leakage, reducing the sites where lithium dendrites can begin.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 28 Aug. 2026
The project has since faced criticism over structural defects.

— ABC News, ABC News, 28 Aug. 2026

Definition of defects

Noun

For people like Carmichael or Williams, who devoted their lives to the struggle for freedom for all people, support for Cuban self-determination also required a critical engagement with the flaws of its government.

— Anne Garland Mahler, The Conversation, 25 Aug. 2026
Here was a team unable to shake its bullpen blues, a club that has fought back from the brink only to again succumb to the same old flaws.

— Cody Stavenhagen, New York Times, 25 Aug. 2026

Definition of flaws

Noun

As starlight streams through the telescope, those actuators subtly reshape the mirrors in real time, correcting for imperfections in the telescope's optics smaller than the width of a strand of DNA.

— Sharmila Kuthunur, Space.com, 26 Aug. 2026
To Lucarelli, those imperfections only legitimize the challenge.

— Stephen J. Nesbitt, New York Times, 20 Aug. 2026

Definition of imperfections

Noun

For example, patients with bunion deformities may not be able to tolerate their hallux being forced in a straighter position.

— Karla Rodriguez, Footwear News, 24 Aug. 2026
Fetuses of mice suddenly exposed to QACs developed deformities and neural tube defects similar to spina bifida in humans.

— Sandee LaMotte, CNN Money, 11 Aug. 2026

Definition of deformities

Noun

The multirun home runs Boyd has been giving up lately are creating blemishes among his otherwise good stuff.

— Meghan Montemurro, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 2026
For those prone to blemishes, the ingredient targets cutibacterium acnes (formerly known as propionibacterium acnes), a bacterium associated with acne.

— Kelsey Stewart, Allure, 18 Aug. 2026

Definition of blemishes

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