A person who studies, accepts, or specializes in anomalies; someone who investigates unusual phenomena or deviations from normal patterns.
From Greek anomalos 'uneven' plus -ist, denoting a person who practices or specializes in something. The term developed as anomalies became recognized as worthy of systematic study rather than mere curiosities.
Anomalists are like the detectives of science—they follow up on the weird stuff that doesn't fit the textbooks, and sometimes those oddities lead to completely new discoveries!
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