anomalist

noun

anom·​a·​list

-lə̇st

plural -s

: an adherent of the view held by certain Greek grammarians of the 2d century b.c. that in language the connection between the word and the idea is arbitrary and based on convention alone

—opposed to analogist

Word History

Etymology

perhaps from German, from anomal- + -ist

First Known Use

1860, in the meaning defined above

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