Difference between Anomalous and Abnormal

What is the difference between Anomalous and Abnormal?

Anomalous as an adjective is deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal while Abnormal as an adjective is not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.

Anomalous

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: deviating from the normal; aberrant or abnormal equivocal

Abnormal

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A person or object that is not normal.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Not conforming to rule or system; deviating from the usual or normal type.Of or pertaining to behaviour that deviates from norms of social propriety or accepted standards of mental health.

Example sentence: Yes, I remember the barbed wire and the guard towers and the machine guns, but they became part of my normal landscape. What would be abnormal in normal times became my normality in camp.

We hope you now know whether to use Anomalous or Abnormal in your sentence.

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