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Anomy vs Atomy - What's the difference?

anomy | atomy |

As nouns the difference between anomy and atomy

is that anomy is an alternative spelling of anomie while atomy is a floating mote or speck of dust.

anomy

English

Noun

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    • Anagrams

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    atomy

    English

    Etymology 1

    See (atom).

    Noun

    (atomies)
  • A floating mote or speck of dust.
  • * 1595 Gervase Markham, The most Honourable Tragedy of Sir Richard Grenville
  • *:Thicker then in sunne are Atomies ,
  • *:Flew bullets.
  • * 1599 Wm. Shakespeare, As You Like It , 3.v
  • *:That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things
  • *:Who shut their coward gates on atomies
  • *:Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers!

    • Etymology 2

    A metanalysis (false splitting) of anatomy as an atomy .

    Noun

    (atomies)
  • (archaic) a skeleton
  • * 1786 , Dr. Smollett, The History and Adventures of an Atom , Harrison and Co., page 5,
    • I was now thrown into a violent perturbation of spirit; for I never could behold an atomy without fear and trembling, even when I knew it was no more than a competition of dry bone.
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