aberrancy

English

Etymology

From aberrance +‎ -y.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æˈbɛɹ.n̩.si/, /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩.sɪ/

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Noun

aberrancy (countable and uncountable, plural aberrancies)

1. The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. [from 17th c.]
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies.

2. (geometry) The deviation of a curve from circular form.

References

• “aberrancy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.