ANOMALOUSNESS Synonyms: 69 Similar and Opposite Words

anomalousness

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as in incompatibility

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Noun

Romano explained that their on-set incompatibility stemmed from how they were raised.

— Payton Turkeltaub, Variety, 24 Oct. 2026
Gauss incompatibility can only explain smooth and periodic patterns, however, as Sharon and his team were aware.

— Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2026

Definition of incompatibility

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The movie sanitizes the past and removes its tang, its pungency, leaving a craving for contact with nature, with raw experience, with incongruities and accidents and anything but what fits, in lieu of such synthetic sophistication.

— Richard Brody, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2026
Both shows attempted to offer a perspective on authentic Italian style, with Milan's incongruities as an underlying theme.

— José Criales-Unzueta, Vanity Fair, 26 Sep. 2026

Definition of incongruity

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The more senior the team, the more costly this incongruence becomes, because symbolic behavior travels quickly through the organization.

— Britton Bloch, Forbes.com, 12 June 2026
Such incongruence between actions and intentions can also bring about feelings of guilt.

— Becca Stanek, TheWeek, 24 Apr. 2026

Definition of incongruence

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Cathedral of the Rockies is suing the city after the Boise City Council denied on appeal its application for a variance to code to build a 35-space parking lot on open land next to its religious hub on Hays Street last month.

— Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 22 Oct. 2026
However, any potential signal is expected to be faint and can be obscured by cosmic variance, the statistical uncertainty that arises when observations cover only a finite portion of the universe.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of variance

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Planning can introduce additional model calls, tokens, latency, retries and execution variability.

— Pritam Debnath, Forbes.com, 16 Oct. 2026
Because humans have to have an explanation for everything, every result is ascribed to some kind of intent, process, or approach, as opposed to the inherent variability of baseball.

— Ian Miller OutKick, FOXNews.com, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of variability

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Reproduction impacts other pressing matters such as childcare, public health, and social inequality.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 27 Oct. 2026
The panel suggested at least a 1 percentage point state income tax surcharge on high incomes, saying Connecticut could raise considerable revenue this way and reverse worsening income and wealth inequality.

— Keith M. Phaneuf, Hartford Courant, 27 Oct. 2026

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