It's the word of the day for September 25th.
Today's word is Anomaly, spelled A-N-O-M-A-L-Y.
Anomaly is a noun.
It's a somewhat formal word that refers to something that is remarkable in its deviation from what is unusual or expected.
Here's the word used in a sentence from Not Here, Not Now,
speculative thought, impossibility, and the design imagination by Anthony Dunn and Fiona Rabie.
Magic realism usually makes no attempt to explain or justify the anomaly behind the magical event.
Its justification lies in the conceptual possibilities it allows for in the narrative.
pleasure it provides, and feeling of strangeness that comes from a familiar world being tweaked.
You might be familiar with the Greek word HOMOS, H-O-M-O-S, which means same.
It's from this word that we get words like homonym, homogenous,
and homophone, all of which have to do with sameness or similarity.
What does this have to do with the word anomaly?
Although it's not obvious, homos is a part of the etymology of anomaly, too.
Anomaly is a descendant by way of the Latin and Middle French words of the Greek word anomalos,
which means uneven or irregular.
Anomalos comes from the prefix a, meaning not, and the word homalos, meaning even.
And homalos comes from homos.
With your Word of the Day, I'm Peter Sokolowski.
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