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anomaly - 15 thesaurus results
| 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: | aberration, anomaly, deformity, deviation, eccentricity, exception, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, strangeness, aberrancy, anomalism, atypicalness, bizarreness, deviance, deviancy, extraordinariness, preternaturalness, singularity, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
| Antonyms: | normality, sameness, standard, normalness |
| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, variance, variation, deflection, hereticism, turning |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness, uniformity, straightforwardness |
| Main Entry: | eccentricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bizarreness, unusualness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, foible, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, quirk, strangeness, capriciousness, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, oddness, outlandishness, queerness, singularity, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| Antonyms: | dullness, normality, standard, uniformity, usual, commonality, regularness, usualness |
| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
| Synonyms: | alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transformation, variation, vicissitude, transfiguration |
| Antonyms: | inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | paradox |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction, puzzle |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22*, absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, reverse |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | perversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sexual abnormality |
| Synonyms: | aberration, anomaly, corruption, debauchery, fetish, kink*, deviance, immorality, kinkiness, sexual deviation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | difference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissimilarity, distinctness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, change, characteristic, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discrepancy, disparity, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, peculiarity, separation, variance, variation, variety, asymmetry, contrariety, contrariness, discongruity, dissemblance, heterogeneity, particularity, separateness, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness |
| 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, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity, alikeness |
| Main Entry: | freak |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something, someone very abnormal |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abortion, anomaly, chimera, curiosity, geek*, grotesque, malformation, monster, monstrosity, mutant, mutation, oddity, queer, rarity, sport, weirdo*, miscreation, misshape |
| Antonyms: | normality, ordinary, regular |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | oddity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abnormality |
| Synonyms: | anomaly, characteristic, curiosity, eccentricity, freak, idiosyncrasy, incongruity, irregularity, kink, peculiarity, phenomenon, quirk, rarity, strangeness, bizarreness, conversation piece, extraordinariness, freakishness, oddness, outlandishness, queerness, singularity, unconventionality, unnaturalness |
| Antonyms: | convention, habit, norm, normality, regularity, standard, usualness |
| 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: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
| Synonyms: | allowance, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, anomalism, perquisitor, privileged person |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | original |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who is eccentric |
| Synonyms: | anomaly, card*, case*, character, eccentric, nonconformist, oddball, oddity, queer, weirdo* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that is irregular |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, allowance, anomaly, characteristic, deviation, dispensation, eccentricity, exception, excess, exemption, innovation, laxity, malformation, malfunction, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, rarity, strangeness, looseness, singularity, unconformity, uniqueness, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | custom, regularity, rule |
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