Anomalous vs Unwonted - What's the difference?
anomalous | unwonted |
Deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal.
Of uncertain or unknown categorization.
Having anomalies.
Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
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* 2008 , Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong:
* 2008 , Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica :
* 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.23:
(archaic) Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
* 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at:
As adjectives the difference between anomalous and unwonted
is that anomalous is deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal while unwonted is not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.anomalous
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* anomalouslyunwonted
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(en adjective)- Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted , / Which now came from him.
- [...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.
- On the other hand, it was not so well known among them that Moses was always to be their ruler, and so it behooved those who rebelled against his authority to be punished in a miraculous and unwonted manner.
- ...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.
- we demand the language we are accustomed to, and that which is different from this seems not in keeping but somewhat unintelligible and foreign because of its unwontedness .