Definition of "anomalous" []

• Deviating from the normal or common order, form, or rule. (adjective)
• Equivocal, as in classification or nature. (adjective)

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• "The anomalous is more surprising – thus often a lot more interesting – than the normal and mundane."
• "There's also the more self-conscious and deliberate indecision where the anomalous is explicable as an artifice of the nomology of narrative itself, a product of those "laws of reality" that cover the use of extended metaphor in fiction."
• ""Contact button," she muttered to herself, recalling the anomalous appearance of one on Noneth's hood."