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aberrance

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From aberr (to stray), from Latin aberrō (to wander from the way) + -ance.

Pronunciation

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  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩s/, /æˈbɛɹ.n̩ts/
  • Audio (US):(file)

Noun

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aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)

  1. State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17th century.][1]
    • 1980 August 16, Duncan Mitchel, “Memoirs of a Survivor”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 5, page 14:
      Like Miller, George Lionel married briefly and unsuccessfully, and during the McCarthy era was blacklisted for political aberrance.

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References

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  1. ^ Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “aberrance”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /a.bɛ.ʁɑ̃s/ ~ /a.be.ʁɑ̃s/
  • Audio:(file)

Noun

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aberrance f (plural aberrances)

  1. (statistics) character of what is aberrant
  2. (uncommon) an aberration or anomaly

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