different between anomaly vs curiosity

English

Etymology

From Latin anomalia, from Ancient Greek ???????? (an?malía, “irregularity, anomaly”), from ???????? (an?malos, “irregular, uneven”), negating the meaning of ?????? (homalós, “even”), from ???? (homós, “same”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /??n?m?l?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??n?m?li/
• Hyphenation: anom?aly

Noun

anomaly (plural anomalies)

1. A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.

   Synonyms: abnormality, deviance, deviation, exception, inconsistency, irregularity, phenomenon

2. Something or someone that is strange or unusual.

3. (sciences) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.

4. (astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
5. (biology) A defect or malformation.
6. (quantum mechanics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
7. (dated) An irregularity or disproportion.

Synonyms

• (deviation from the norm):

Hyponyms

• eccentric anomaly
• flyby anomaly
• mean anomaly
• true anomaly

Derived terms

• anomaloscope
• anomalous
• deuteranomaly

Translations

Further reading

• anomaly in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• anomaly in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• anomaly at OneLook Dictionary Search

English

Etymology

From Middle English curiosite, variant of curiouste, from Anglo-Norman curiouseté, from Latin c?ri?sit?tem, from c?ri?sus. Surface analysis curious +? -ity; see -osity.

Pronunciation

• enPR: kyoo?r"??s'?t?, IPA^(key): /?kj??????s?ti/

Noun

curiosity (countable and uncountable, plural curiosities)

1. (uncountable) Inquisitiveness; the tendency to ask and learn about things by asking questions, investigating, or exploring. [from 17th c.]

   Synonym: inquisitiveness

   Antonym: ignorance

   • 1886, Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde

     It was the first time that the lawyer had been received in that part of his friend's quarters; and he eyed the dingy, windowless structure with curiosity, and gazed round with a distasteful sense of strangeness as he crossed the theatre
2. A unique or extraordinary object which arouses interest. [from 17th c.]

3. (obsolete) Careful, delicate construction; fine workmanship, delicacy of building. [16th-19th c.]
   • 1631, John Smith, Advertisements, in Kupperman 1988, p. 81:

     wee built a homely thing like a barne, set upon Cratchets, covered with rafts, sedge, and earth, so also was the walls; the best of our houses of the like curiosity, but the most part farre much worse workmanship […]

Derived terms

• curiosity killed the cat

Related terms

• curious

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