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OP Not a word likely to be useful: "heteroclite" - from the spelling bee words.
" This modernist concern is even more pertinent in the media-powered postmodern era,
where technology has only served to increase the "heteroclite mass of
undigested information".
heteroclite
adj.
Fr heteroclite < LL heteroclitus < Gr heteroklitos, irregularly inflected < hetero + klinein, to bend,
departing from the standard or norm; abnormal; anomalous Also het#er[o[clit$ic 73klit4ik8
n.
1 Gram. a word, esp. a noun, inflected irregularly
2 [Rare] an anomaly
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