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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
| Synonyms: | allowance, anomalism, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, perquisitor, privilege, privileged person, quirk |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity, usualness |
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, clove, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, discontinuity, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interspace, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | paradox |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contradiction, puzzle |
| Synonyms: | Catch-22, absurdity, ambiguity, anomaly, catch, enigma, error, inconsistency, mistake, mystery, nonsense, oddity, opposite, reverse |
| Main Entry: | vagary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | caprice |
| Synonyms: | crotchet, fancy, fool notion, humor, idea, impulse, inconsistency, inconstancy, notion, quirk, whim, whimsy |
| Main Entry: | variance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference |
| Synonyms: | about-face, argument, change, conflict, contention, deviation, difference of opinion, different strokes, disaccord, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, dissension, dissent, dissidence, disunity, divergence, diversity, division, flip-flop, fluctuation, incongruity, inconsistency, mid-course correction, mutation, separation, severing, strife, sundering, switch, transmogrification, unharmoniousness, variation, variety |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
| Main Entry: | sophistry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deception |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, casuistry, fallacy, inconsistency, paralogism, paralogy, trickery |
| Main Entry: | incongruity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discrepancy |
| Synonyms: | difference, inappropriateness, inconsistency, mismatch |
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unevenness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, asymmetry, break, bump, bumpiness, change, dent, deviation, distortion, flaw, hole, hump, imperfection, inconsistency, jaggedness, roughness, shift, spasm, stop, twist, uncertainty, variability, variation |
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