Anomaly vs. Paradox — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Anomaly and Paradox
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Anomaly
Deviation or departure from the normal or common order, form, or rule.
Paradox
A paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation. It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion.
Anomaly
One that is peculiar, irregular, abnormal, or difficult to classify
"Both men are anomalies.
Paradox
A seemingly absurd or contradictory statement or proposition which when investigated may prove to be well founded or true
The uncertainty principle leads to all sorts of paradoxes, like the particles being in two places at once
Anomaly
(Astronomy) The angular deviation, as observed from the sun, of a planet from its perihelion.
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Paradox
A statement that seems to contradict itself but may nonetheless be true
The paradox that standing is more tiring than walking.
Anomaly
A deviation from a rule or from what is regarded as normal; an outlier.
Paradox
A person, thing, or situation that exhibits inexplicable or contradictory aspects
"The silence of midnight, to speak truly, though apparently a paradox, rung in my ears" (Mary Shelley).
Anomaly
Something or someone that is strange or unusual.
He is an anomaly among his friends in that he's the only one who's unmarried.
Paradox
A statement that is self-contradictory or logically untenable, though based on a valid deduction from acceptable premises.
Anomaly
(science) Any event or measurement that is out of the ordinary regardless of whether it is exceptional or not.
She disregarded some of the anomalies in the experiment, putting them down to miscalculation.
Paradox
An apparently self-contradictory statement, which can only be true if it is false, and vice versa.
"This sentence is false" is a paradox.
Anomaly
(astronomy) Any of various angular distances.
Paradox
A counterintuitive conclusion or outcome.
It is an interesting paradox that drinking a lot of water can often make you feel thirsty.
Anomaly
(biology) A defect or malformation.
Paradox
A claim that two apparently contradictory ideas are true.
Not having a fashion is a fashion; that's a paradox.
Anomaly
(quantum physics) A failure of a classical symmetry due to quantum corrections.
Paradox
A thing involving contradictory yet interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.
Anomaly
(dated) An irregularity or disproportion.
Paradox
A person or thing having contradictory properties.
He is a paradox; you would not expect him in that political party.
Anomaly
Deviation from the common rule; an irregularity; anything anomalous.
We are enabled to unite into a consistent whole the various anomalies and contending principles that are found in the minds and affairs of men.
As Professor Owen has remarked, there is no greater anomaly in nature than a bird that can not fly.
Paradox
An unanswerable question or difficult puzzle, particularly one which leads to a deeper truth.
Anomaly
The angular distance of a planet from its perihelion, as seen from the sun. This is the true anomaly. The eccentric anomaly is a corresponding angle at the center of the elliptic orbit of the planet. The mean anomaly is what the anomaly would be if the planet's angular motion were uniform.
Paradox
(obsolete) A statement which is difficult to believe, or which goes against general belief.
Anomaly
Any deviation from the essential characteristics of a specific type.
Paradox
(uncountable) The use of counterintuitive or contradictory statements (paradoxes) in speech or writing.
Anomaly
Deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule
Paradox
A state in which one is logically compelled to contradict oneself.
Anomaly
A person who is unusual
Paradox
The practice of giving instructions that are opposed to the therapist's actual intent, with the intention that the client will disobey or be unable to obey.
Anomaly
(astronomy) position of a planet as defined by its angular distance from its perihelion (as observed from the sun)
Paradox
A tenet or proposition contrary to received opinion; an assertion or sentiment seemingly contradictory, or opposed to common sense; that which in appearance or terms is absurd, but yet may be true in fact.
A gloss there is to color that paradox, and make it appear in show not to be altogether unreasonable.
This was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof.
Paradox
(logic) a self-contradiction;
`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false
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