unconformity

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Concept: Unconformity.
Category: 5. ORDER AS REGARDS CATEGORIES
Synonyms:
-nouns
nonconformity; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness; exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism, eccentricity, bizarrerie, oddity, je ne sais quoi, monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.]., individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism., aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo (qualification)., nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonsuch, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae, rara avis, queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis, crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid, hermaphrodite., phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders" [Othello]; teratology., fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.
-verbs
be uncomformable; abnormalize; leave the beaten track, leave the beaten path; infringe a law, infringe a habit, infringe a usage, infringe a custom, break a law, break a habit, break a usage, break a custom, violate a law, violate a habit, violate a usage, violate a custom; drive a coach and six through; stretch a point; have no business there; baffle all description, beggar all description.
-adjectives
uncomformable, exceptional; abnormal, abnormous; anomalous, anomalistic; out of order, out of place, out of keeping, out of tune, out of one's element; irregular, arbitrary; teratogenic; lawless, informal, aberrant, stray, wandering, wanton; peculiar, exclusive, unnatural, eccentric, egregious; out of the beaten track, off the beaten track, out of the common, out of the common run; beyond the pale of, out of the pale of; misplaced; funny., unusual, unaccustomed, uncustomary, unwonted, uncommon; rare, singular, unique, curious, odd, extraordinary; weird, strange, monstrous; wonderful; unexpected, unaccountable; outre, out of the way, remarkable, noteworthy; queer, quaint, nondescript, none such, sui generis; original, unconventional, unfashionable; undescribed, unprecedented, unparalleled, unexampled, unheard of, unfamiliar; fantastic, newfangled, grotesque, bizarre; outlandish, exotic, tombe des nues, preternatural; denaturalized., heterogeneous, heteroclite, amorphous, mongrel, amphibious, epicene, half blood, hybrid; androgynous, androgynal; unsymmetric; adelomorphous, bisexual, hermaphrodite, monoclinous., qualified.
-adverbs
unconformably; except, unless, save, barring, beside, without, save and except, let alone., however, yet, but.
-phrases
never was seen the like, never was heard the like, never was known the like.
Antonyms: conformity
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Main Entry: difference
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: dissimilarity, distinctness
Synonyms: aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discongruity, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness, variance, variation, variety
Notes: deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar
deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things
Antonyms: accord, agreement, alikeness, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity
Main Entry: variation
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difference; alternative
Synonyms: aberration, abnormality, adaptation, alteration, bend, break, change, contradistinction, contrast, curve, deflection, departure, departure from the norm, deviation, digression, discrepancy, disparity, displacement, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divergence, diversification, diversity, exception, fluctuation, inequality, innovation, modification, mutation, novelty, shift, swerve, turn, unconformity, variety
Antonyms: agreement, root, similarity, source
Main Entry: irregularity
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: something that is irregular
Synonyms: abnormality, allowance, anomaly, characteristic, deviation, dispensation, eccentricity, exception, excess, exemption, innovation, laxity, looseness, malformation, malfunction, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, rarity, singularity, strangeness, unconformity, uniqueness, unorthodoxy
Antonyms: custom, regularity, rule
Main Entry: unlikeness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: difference
Synonyms: aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discongruity, discrepance, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unconformity, unorthodoxness, variance, variation, variety
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Main Entry: irregularity
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
anarchical, anomalous, by planets, capricious, chaotic, complex, complexed, complicated, confused, deranged, desultory, disjointed, dislocated, disorderly, entangled, fitful, flickering, heteroclite, immethodical, indiscriminate, inextricable, intricate, involved, irreducible, irregular, knotted, orderless, out of gear, out of joint, out of order, out of place, out of sorts, perplexed, promiscuous, rambling, raveled, rhapsodical, riotous, shapeless, slovenly, spasmodic, straggling, tangled, topsy, unarranged, uncertain, unmethodical, unpunctual, unsymmetric, unsystematic, untidy
Main Entry: unlikeness
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
anomalous, as different as Macedon and Monmouth, as different as chalk from cheese, as like a dock as a daisy, cast in a different mold, disparate, dissimilar, diversified, far from it, new, no such thing, nothing of the kind, novel, of a different kind, original, quite another thing, unique, unlike, unmatched, unprecedented, very like a whale
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Difference.
Category: 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION; RELATIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
difference; variance, variation, variety; diversity, dissimilarity; disagreement; disparity (inequality); distinction, contradistinction; alteration., modification, permutation, moods and tenses., nice distinction, fine distinction, delicate distinction, subtle distinction; shade of difference, nuance; discrimination. [more]; differentia., different thing, something else, apple off another tree, another pair of shoes; horse of a different color; this that or the other.
-verbs
be different; differ, vary, ablude, mismatch, contrast; divaricate; differ toto coelo, differ longo intervallo., vary, modify (change)., discriminate.
-adjectives
differing; different, diverse, heterogeneous, multifarious, polyglot; distinguishable, dissimilar; varied, modified; diversified, various, divers, all manner of, all kinds of; variform; daedal., other, another, not the same; unequal; unmatched; widely apart, poles apart, distinctive, characteristic; discriminative; distinguishing.
-adverbs
differently.
-phrases
il y a fagots et fagots.
Antonyms: identity, uniformity, similarity
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [more]. Variation.
Category: 3. PARTIAL RELATION
Synonyms:
-nouns
variation; alteration. (change) [more]; modification, moods and tenses; discrepance, discrepancy; divergency; deviation; aberration; innovation.
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