Aberration synonyms
Category:
Part of speech:
An act or instance of deranging.
A usually minor or temporary failure; a slip:
Something that is peculiar, as a trait or habit
difference (related)
A degree or amount by which things differ:
characteristic (related)
A distinguishable feature of a person or thing
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(Biology) The evolution of different forms or structures in related species as they adapt to different environments. An example of divergence is the development of wings in bats from the same bones that form the arm and hand or paw in most other mammals.
(Uncountable) The state of being divergent
A policy or practice permitting a juvenile to be removed from traditional processing in juvenile court and placed in a program involving an alternative disposition, such as treatment or rehabilitation services.
(Geometry) The deviation of a curve from circular form.
The state or quality of being abnormal; variation; irregularity. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
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The quality of being preternatural.
The state of being unnatural.
(Uncountable) The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.
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Loss of cognitive abilities, including memory, concentration, communication, planning, and abstract thinking, resulting from brain injury or from a disease such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease. It is sometimes accompanied by emotional disturbance and personality changes.
The definition of a disturbance is an interruption of what should be going on, or a bothersome intrusion.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
The definition of insanity is having a serious mental illness or being extremely foolish.
Great or wild foolishness:
Enthusiasm; excitement:
(Countable) A mental disorder.
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Mental illness. No longer in clinical use.
The condition of being unbalanced; imbalance
An excessive, persistent enthusiasm, liking, craving, or interest; obsession; craze
Mental derangement; insanity
approach (related)
The method used in dealing with or accomplishing:
correct (related)
A departing from what is prescribed
good (related)
(Slang) Incriminating information or evidence:
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usual (related)
The condition of being abnormal
sane (related)
The condition of having a sound and rational mind; being mentally healthy and having the ability to distinguish right from wrong. In all jurisdictions, being sane is presumed, and it is up to the defense to prove the contrary to be true. Synonymous with sanity. See also insanity and insanity defense.
The quantum number represented by this property, equal to the difference between the number of strange antiquarks and the number of strange quarks.
A departing, or going away
(Botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal. [First attested in the mid 19th century.]
(Geol.) Designating a boulder or rock formation transported some distance from its original source, as by a glacier
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abnormity
(Rare) Abnormality or monstrosity
Something different; variety:
The difference between a computed or estimated result and the actual value, as in mathematics
A person or thing that fails
Perception of visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, or gustatory experiences without an external stimulus and with a compelling sense of their reality, usually resulting from a mental disorder or as a response to a drug.
One that is odd.
A strong fear, dislike, or aversion.
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sameness (antonym)
The quality or condition of being the same.
conformity (antonym)
The definition of conformity is similarity or harmony, or the following of rules and social norms.
regularity (antonym)
(Countable) A particular regular occurrence
chromatic aberration (related)
(Optics) An optical aberration, in which an image has coloured fringes, caused by differential refraction of light of different wavelengths.
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spherical-aberration (related)
(Optics) A type of lens aberration which causes blurriness, particularly away from the centre of the lens.
astigmatism coma (related)
A defect in a lens or mirror that prevents light rays from being focused at a single point and results in a distorted or blurred image. &diamf3; Aberration that results in distortion of color is called chromatic aberration. &diamf3; Aberration that is caused by imperfections in the surface or shape of a spherical mirror or lens is called spherical aberration.
Noise or other artifacts caused in the electronic reproduction of sound or music.
optical aberration
an optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image
amorphism
Amorphous quality
anomalousness
The state or quality of being anomalous.
centrifugence
The property or quality of being centrifugal.
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circuitousness
The state of being circuitous
crackpotism
crankism
The state or quality of being crotchety.
dementedness
The quality of being demented.
diagonality
(Mathematics) The condition of being diagonal
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differentness
(Uncountable) The state or quality of being different.
dottiness
The state or quality of being dotty, mildly insane or preoccupied
erraticness
The quality of being erratic.
fallaciousness
The property of being fallacious.
faultiness
The quality of being faulty.
flawedness
freakiness
The state or condition of being freaky.
obliqueness
The characteristic of being oblique.
pixilation
rabidness
The property of being rabid.
reasonlessness
Any statement or idea containing elements that contradict each other
transverseness
unnaturalism
unsaneness
abberation (related)
astigmatism (related)
inversion (related)
vignetting (related)
Find another word for aberration. In this page you can discover 94 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for aberration, like: deviation, derangement, irregularity, lapse, peculiarity, difference, characteristic, quirk, divergence, divergency and diversion.