aberrance
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English[edit]
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Etymology[edit]
From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)
- 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.
Translations[edit]
state of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude
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References[edit]
- ^ 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.
French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
aberrance f (plural aberrances)
- (statistics) character of what is aberrant
- (uncommon) an aberration or anomaly
Further reading[edit]
- “aberrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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