Thesaurus:anomaly

Thesaurus

anomaly

English

Noun

Sense: something that is strange or unusual

Synonyms

• aberrant
• abnormality    [⇒ thesaurus]
• anomaly
• deviance
• deviant
• farlie (obsolete, British dialect)
• freak
• irregularity
• odd fish (idiomatic)
• oddity
• outlier
• peculiarity
• queerness
• rarity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• rum (obsolete, slang)
• strange fish (idiomatic)
• strangeness    [⇒ thesaurus]
• unusualness
• weirdness

Hyponyms

People:

• foreigner    [⇒ thesaurus]
• maverick    [⇒ thesaurus]
• outcast    [⇒ thesaurus]
• strange person    [⇒ thesaurus]

Objects:

• curio
• curiosity

Hypernyms

• entity    [⇒ thesaurus]
• occurrence    [⇒ thesaurus]
• strangeness    [⇒ thesaurus]

Holonyms

• exotica

Various

• odditorium

Further reading

• “83. unconformity” in Roget's Thesaurus, T. Y. Crowell Co., 1911.
• “anomaly” in Moby Thesaurus II, Grady Ward, 1996.