Singularly vs Abnormally - What's the difference?
singularly | abnormally | Related terms |
In a singular manner.
Strangely; oddly.
* 1895 , H. G. Wells, The Time Machine Chapter X
In an abnormal manner; in a way that deviates from a standard, norm, or average.
* 1895 , , The Time Machine , ch. 6,
Singularly is a related term of abnormally.
As adverbs the difference between singularly and abnormally
is that singularly is in a singular manner while abnormally is in an abnormal manner; in a way that deviates from a standard, norm, or average .singularly
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Now, I still think that for this box of matches to have escaped the wear of time for immemorial years was a strange, and for me, a most fortunate thing. Yet oddly enough I found here a far more unlikely substance, and that was camphor. I found it in a sealed jar, that, by chance, I supposed had been really hermetically sealed. I fancied at first the stuff was paraffin wax, and smashed the jar accordingly. But the odor of camphor was unmistakable. It struck me as singularly odd, that among the universal decay, this volatile substance had chanced to survive, perhaps through many thousand years.
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*abnormally
English
Adverb
(en adverb)- Living, as they did, in what appeared to me impenetrable darkness, their eyes were abnormally large and sensitive.