Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality or condition of being anomalous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Quality of being anomalous.
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- noun The state or quality of being
anomalous .
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- noun deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
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Examples
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This kind of anomalousness is one thing, dependence or supervenience another.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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This indicates severe myopia about economists' own anomalousness, and the anomalousness of the market economies that they study--where instrumental rationality in the service of pecuniary self-interest is, indeed, prevalent.
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Far from emphasizing the distinctiveness of introspection, the Inner Sense model instead seeks to minimize the anomalousness and associated mystery of self-knowledge by construing introspection as fundamentally similar to perception.
Self-Knowledge Gertler, Brie 2008
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Granting the anomalousness of aesthetic properties, then, we need to explain it.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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Nevertheless the anomalousness of aesthetics is worth thinking about in its own right.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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If Beardsley insists on a lawlike connection between his three thick substantive aesthetic properties (unity, intensity and complexity) and aesthetic value, he can only do so at the cost of conceding anomalousness between the three thick substantive aesthetic properties and nonaesthetic properties.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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But they are not agreed on the explanation of anomalousness.
Aesthetic Judgment Zangwill, Nick 2007
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Secretary's Office, was reputed to be an excellent mathematician, and had high testimonials of his qualification, he applied for the professorship; evidently feeling the anomalousness of his position, and his inability and powerlessness to establish a system of Public School
The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842
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Continuum of anomalousness: Gentle vs Intense, Orthodox vs Idiosyncratic, No sensory elements vs Clear 'hallucinations', Connectedness vs Loss of self, Transient vs Extended, Not paranormal vs Strong 'paranormal'.
Planet Atheism 2009
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Continuum of anomalousness: Gentle vs Intense, Orthodox vs Idiosyncratic, No sensory elements vs Clear 'hallucinations', Connectedness vs Loss of self, Transient vs Extended, Not paranormal vs Strong 'paranormal'.
Planet Atheism 2009
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