Faith?

[Violet]

So the definition of allergy is meaningless when many people are individually allergic to a substance? Are you suggesting that sensitivity has anything to do with how many people are affected?

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allergy |ˈalərjē|
noun ( pl. -gies)
a damaging immune response by the body to a substance, esp. pollen, fur, a particular food, or dust, to which it has become hypersensitive.
• informal an antipathy : their allergy to free enterprise.

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You will notice that an allergy is in particular to the body. To which it (the body) has become hypersensitive. The norm of the body has nothing to do with the norm of everyone...

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hypersensitive |ˌhīpərˈsensitiv|
adjective
abnormally or excessively sensitive, either psychologically or in physical response.

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You are suggesting that someone with a pollen allergy will not be extremely sensitive to breathing in pollen, as apposed to breathing normal air?

You are basing your definition on societal norm... which I have not noticed the word 'society' in any one of these definitions... let alone a societal norm. A room full of people with broken legs, does not treat their broken legs. A room full of people poisoned, does not treat their poisons. A room of blue-hatted people, does not make the hats any less blue. A room of people hypersensitive to a substance, does not make them any less hypersensitive to said substance.

Sure, many people are similarly affected to being stabbed... but many people with pollen allergies are similarly affected to pollen. That I am hypersensitive to being stabbed (and in it's being an abnormal occurrence for me) does not make anyone else not hypersensitive to being stabbed... nor does it make my being stabbed any less abnormal an occurrence.