I guess that the depends on what work of fiction we're talking about. I mean, if you look at Discworld for example, there is nothing anomalous about gods or the fact that the world is flat and is carried by four elephants standing on a turtle. That's how things work, for people of Discworld that's what makes sense and works in accordance with rules of that universe. To them, it's the "Roundworld" like ours that is the anomaly - with no magic, no narrativum to make event occur in proper fashion etc.

Well, they do refer to black holes as the places "where the sun never shines" because the gravity is so gargantuan that it beats even the speed of light.

Well why, the meaning of the word depends on context.
By the way, I know very nice example of geographical singularity: the poles. From any point on the globe, you can define the direction to any other point with compass rose, but from the north pole, everything is straight south from there and no other direction makes sense. I'm using it to explain in layman terms what singularity means in physic.

Woah there, please don't make fun of our friendly Polish neighbours.

Damn, I knew I was a singularity all along

Given its use as the origin story in 80% of RPGs, I'd instead call it a commonality ; )

Isn't that a fundation of fantasy litterature ?

Take serious, fashionable cool sounding terms and use them as varnish for the monster of the week, or in updated technobabble ?

You know, a bit like in politics ?

You got ninja'd (by about 8 hours): Dem ninjas be quick!

I'm anomalic.

Actually, I think I'm more of a duality, being an Aussie Pole and all

well anomaly is a tower defense game, while singularity is a fps

Thank you all for your replies. From what I have gathered, singuarities seem to be the exception, the cause of which are so complex and varied that they cannot be predicted, while anomalies are kind of a freak law of nature that always applies if certain conditions are met, is that right?

So the floating rocks seem to be caused by a singularity though they themselves might not be a singularity, they have just been "attracted" by it.

What about the fantasy gods? Someone said they are more of an anomaly, but considering that such a god is infinite in its existence and power, wouldn't that be a singularity?

And the collapse of Barad-dûr doesn't seem to be singularity or anomaly either, right?

where are we with singularities anyway?

As far as i know, we have detected effects which 'may' indicate their existence but not 100% proven yet?

Yes, that's in the future (prediction), but think also in the past (explanation). For example, mathematical/formal definitions aside, the Big Bang being a singularity means that with our current knowledge we can't explain anything at all about the state of the universe before it. We can explain how we've come to the current state of things since then. Or, the other way round, we can look at things around us, take our laws of physics, apply them "in reverse" and rewind everything to come to the conclusion that everything must come from that event, the Big Bang. But our laws apply only up to the very first moment, an infinitesimal amount of time after everything went boom. You try to go a little bit further, and the laws "break". There's no way to know how things were an infinitely small amount of time before.

With the coming of AI or other unimaginable technology, the idea behind the "subversion" of the term is that whatever happens afterwards is so out of our reach (way beyond the wildest science fiction predictions), and things will be so different before and after, that it might as well be considered a "Big Bang style" singularity.