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anecdotal

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an·ec·do·tal

[an-ik-doht-l, an-ik-doht-l]
adjective
1.
pertaining to, resembling, or containing anecdotes: an anecdotal history of jazz.
2.
(of the treatment of subject matter in representational art) pertaining to the relationship of figures or to the arrangement of elements in a scene so as to emphasize the story content of a subject. Compare narrative (def. 6).
3.
based on personal observation, case study reports, or random investigations rather than systematic scientific evaluation: anecdotal evidence.

Origin:
1830–40; anecdote + -al1

an·ec·do·tal·ism, noun
an·ec·do·tal·ly, adverb
un·an·ec·do·tal, adjective
un·an·ec·do·tal·ly, adverb
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Anecdotal is always a great word to know.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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  • The result is a museum that mixes the formal and informal, the educational and anecdotal.
  • These reviews are more like what you would find in a guidebook than in an anecdotal consumer review.
  • Yet, the players' anecdotal evidence backs up the statistics.
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anecdotal (ˌænɛkˈdəʊtəl)
 
adj
containing or consisting exclusively of anecdotes rather than connected discourse or research conducted under controlled conditions

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