'anomaly' definitions:
Definition of 'anomaly'
From: WordNet
noun
Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule [syn: anomaly, anomalousness]
noun
A person who is unusual [syn: anomaly, unusual person]
noun
(astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
Synonyms of 'anomaly'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- abnormity,
- amorphism,
- anomalism,
- anomalousness,
- conceit,
- conversation piece,
- crackpotism,
- crank,
- crankiness,
- crankism,
- crosspatch,
- crotchet,
- crotchetiness,
- curio,
- curiosity,
- derangement,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- difference,
- differentness,
- divergence,
- dottiness,
- eccentricity,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- exception,
- freak,
- freakiness,
- freakishness,
- heteromorphism,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- improbability,
- impropriety,
- inadmissibility,
- inapplicability,
- inappositeness,
- inappropriateness,
- inaptitude,
- inaptness,
- individualist,
- infelicity,
- inferiority,
- inner-directed person,
- irregularity,
- irrelevance,
- irrelevancy,
- kink,
- maggot,
- maladjustment,
- mannerism,
- mesalliance,
- misalliance,
- misfit,
- misjoinder,
- misjoining,
- mismatch,
- monstrosity,
- museum piece,
- naysayer,
- nonconformist,
- nonconformity,
- nonesuch,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- peculiarity,
- prodigiosity,
- prodigy,
- queerness,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quirkiness,
- rarity,
- singularity,
- sport,
- strange thing,
- strangeness,
- subnormality,
- superiority,
- teratism,
- trick,
- twist,
- uncongeniality,
- unconventionality,
- unfitness,
- unnaturalism,
- unnaturalness,
- unsuitability,
- whim,
- whimsicality,
- whimsy