| 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: | 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: | curiosity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | odd item |
Synonyms: |
anomaly, bibelot, bygone, conversation piece, curio, exoticism, freak, knickknack, marvel, monstrosity, nonesuch, objet d'art, oddity, peculiar object, prodigy, rarity, singular object, trinket, unusual object, wonder |
Antonyms: |
normality |
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, deflection, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, hereticism, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, turning, variance, variation |
Antonyms: |
conformity, sameness, straightforwardness, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | difference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissimilarity, distinctness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discongruity, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness, variance, variation, variety |
| Notes: | deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, alikeness, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity |
| 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: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
Synonyms: |
allowance, anomalism, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, perquisitor, privilege, privileged person, quirk |
Antonyms: |
normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | freak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something, someone very abnormal |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abortion, anomaly, chimera, curiosity, geek*, grotesque, malformation, miscreation, misshape, monster, monstrosity, mutant, mutation, oddity, queer, rarity, sport, weirdo* |
Antonyms: |
normality, ordinary, regular |
| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
Synonyms: |
alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transfiguration, transformation, variation, vicissitude |
Antonyms: |
inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | oddity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormality |
Synonyms: |
anomaly, bizarreness, characteristic, conversation piece, curiosity, eccentricity, extraordinariness, freak, freakishness, idiosyncrasy, incongruity, irregularity, kink, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, phenomenon, queerness, quirk, rarity, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unnaturalness |
Antonyms: |
convention, habit, norm, normality, regularity, standard, usualness |