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anomic /ano·mic/ (ah-no´mik) lacking a name.
a·no·mic (-nmk, -nmk)
adj.
Socially unstable, alienated, and disorganized.
n.
A socially unstable, alienated person.
anomic
Amnestic aphasia Neurology Loss of the ability to name objects


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The book tries to hagiographize Thomas, an anomic writer of little renown, beforehand, into death's equivalent of Ring Lardner, the famed sportswriter, or H.
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