anomalousness

noun

Definition of anomalousnessnext
as in incompatibility

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  1. incompatibility
  2. dichotomy
  3. incongruity
  4. incongruence
  5. variance
  6. nonconformity
  7. inequality
  8. imbalance
Noun
  • This reduces the complexity and incompatibility issues that contribute to entropy.
    Kiran Yelamaneni, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
  • There could be application or device driver incompatibilities that Microsoft detects and places a safeguard against upgrading your device.
    Tom Warren, The Verge, 1 Oct. 2024
Definition of incompatibility
Noun
  • In essence, facing Barcelona is a dichotomy running through much of the top-level game in Spain—to find answers elsewhere or to promote talent from within.
    Henry Flynn, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
  • His instincts were spot on, as over the course of the next several months to a year, his collaboration with Eastwood indeed strengthened his script in stylish ways, deepening the characters’ dichotomies considerably.
    Tomris Laffly, TIME, 4 Nov. 2024
Definition of dichotomy
Noun
  • The incongruity between Tropicana’s decent home run but low fly ball park factor is nothing new.
    Tony Blengino, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
  • The contrasts didn’t hit him all at once, but more slowly — an accumulation of incongruities that built up over time.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of incongruity
Noun
  • In doing all this, a confederation would resolve thorny questions arising from the incongruence between citizenship, nationhood, and statehood as well as between demography, nationality, and sovereignty.
    Omar M. Dajani, Foreign Affairs, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There is its sheer incongruence as a red-carpet look.
    Joshua Hunt, New York Times, 12 June 2024
Definition of incongruence
Noun
  • Another recent study found that fast-twitchers tend to be very slightly stronger: fiber type explained about five percent of the variance in one-rep max.
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Yet there remain wide variances among regions in terms of where inventory is coming online, and the overall trend has slowed again recently.
    Rob Wile, NBC News, 9 Nov. 2024
Definition of variance
Noun
  • The nonconformity factor produced a surprisingly realistic result.
    Manon Bischoff, Scientific American, 30 Oct. 2024
  • But beyond the character’s gender nonconformity, the movie is also incredibly anarchist (and quite bisexual, too).
    Fran Tirado, Them, 15 Oct. 2024
Definition of nonconformity
Noun
  • The uprising began with peaceful demonstrations against employment quotas for regime loyalists, but a heavy-handed crackdown ignited a powderkeg of rage against inequality and political repression that brought tens of thousands of mothers and daughters, bankers and beggars, united onto the street.
    Charlie Campbell, TIME, 21 Nov. 2024
  • Proposition 32 Sparks Heated Debate Proposition 32 ignited fierce debate across California, highlighting a growing divide over how best to address wage inequality and economic challenges.
    Matt Robison, Newsweek, 21 Nov. 2024
Definition of inequality
Noun
  • Otherwise, the imbalance of 70% male to 30% female in companies will persist, especially in leadership roles.
    Corinne Post, Forbes, 21 Nov. 2024
  • This condition causes an imbalance in the microscopic organisms within the body, which can have negative impacts on health, per Cleveland Clinic.
    Melissa Rudy, Fox News, 20 Nov. 2024
Definition of imbalance
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