Aberration

Noun

 * 1) The act of wandering from the barn; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type.
 * 2) A partial alienation of reason.
 * 3)  A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
 * 4)  The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus.
 * 5)  A deviation of an organism from the state which is regarded as normal.
 * 6) A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
 * 7)  The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B.
 * 8)  atypical development or structure

Adjectives for Aberration
vulgar; isolated; philosophic;  abhorrent; dangerous; spiritual; noteworthy; marked; human; apparent; mental.

Synonyms for Aberration
deviation, irregularity, variation, divergence, distortion, insanity, eccentricity, peculiarity, anomaly, lapse, perversion.

Thesaurus
aberrance; aberrancy; abet; abnormality; abnormity; alienation; amorphism; anomalism; anomalousness; anomaly; bend; bias; brain damage; brainsickness; branching off; centrifugence; circuitousness; clouded mind; conceit; corner; crackpotism; crank; crankiness; crankism; craziness; crook; crosswiseness; crotchet; crotchetiness; curiosity; curve; daftness; decentralization; declination; defectiveness; deflection; deflexure; delusion; dementedness; dementia; departure; deployment; derangement; detour; deviance; deviancy; deviation; deviousness; diagonality; difference; differentness; digression; discursion; disorientation; distortion; distraction; divagation; divarication; divergence; divergency; diversion; division; dogleg; dottiness; double; drift; drifting; eccentricity; errancy; errantry; erraticism; erraticness; erroneousness; error; excursion; excursus; exorbitation; fallaciousness; fallacy; falseness; falsity; fanning; fanning out; fault; faultiness; flaw; flawedness; folie; foment; freakiness; freakishness; furor; hairpin; hamartia; heresy; heterodoxy; heteromorphism; idiocrasy; idiosyncrasy; illusion; indirection; indirectness; inferiority; insaneness; insanity; instigate; irrationality; irregularity; kink; loss of mind; loss of reason; lunacy; madness; maggot; mania; mannerism; mental deficiency; mental derangement; mental disease; mental disorder; mental disturbance; mental illness; mental instability; mental sickness; mind overthrown; mindsickness; misapplication; misconstruction; misdoing; misfeasance; misinterpretation; misjudgment; mistake; monstrosity; nonconformity; obliqueness; obliquity; oddity; oddness; peccancy; peculiarity; pererration; perversion; pixilation; possession; prodigy; provoke; psychopathy; queerness; quip; quirk; quirkiness; rabidness; raise; rambling; rarity; reasonlessness; self-contradiction; senselessness; separation; set; set on; shattered mind; sheer; shift; shifting; shifting course; shifting path; sick mind; sickness; sin; sinfulness; singularity; skew; skewness; slant; slip; splaying; spread; spreading; spreading out; squint; stir up; strangeness; straying; subnormality; superiority; sweep; swerve; swerving; swinging; tack; teratism; transverseness; trick; turn; turning; twist; unbalance; unbalanced mind; unconventionality; unnaturalism; unnaturalness; unorthodoxy; unsaneness; unsound mind; unsoundness; unsoundness of mind; untrueness; untruth; untruthfulness; vagary; variation; veer; wandering; warp; whim; whimsicality; whimsy; witlessness; wrong; wrongness; yaw; zigzag

Etymology
Coined between 1585 and 1595 from aberratio:. Compare French aberration:. See aberrate.

Derived terms

 * spherical aberration
 * aberrational

Translations

 * Bulgarian: отклоняване, отклонение
 * Finnish:, , eksyminen, , harhautuminen,
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, tévút


 * Irish: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Turkish: sapma, sapkınlık
 * Vietnamese: (sự) lầm lạc, phút lầm lạc


 * Finnish: ajatusvirhe,, harhapolku
 * German:
 * Hungarian:


 * Irish: ,
 * Italian:
 * Vietnamese: sự kém trí khôn, sự loạn trí


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Irish:


 * Italian:
 * Spanish:
 * Vietnamese: tính sai


 * Bulgarian:
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 * German:
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 * Bulgarian:
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 * German:
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 * Italian:
 * Portuguese: aberração
 * Spanish:, perturbación mental
 * Vietnamese: (sự) khác thường


 * Bulgarian: умопомрачение
 * Finnish: ,


 * German: ,
 * Irish:


 * Finnish: harharikos


 * Latin: aberratio delicti


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish: harhamuunnos,
 * German: ,


 * Irish:
 * Italian:
 * Spanish:


 * : aberration
 * : aberration


 * : avvik, villfarelse
 * : aberração
 * : aberración

Noun

 * 1) Something, such as an idea or fact, that is aberrant; an aberration.
 * 2) The state of being aberrant.
 * 3)  An aberration.
 * 4)  An aberration.
 * 5)  An aberration or mutation.

Anagrams

 * abornerait
 * arboraient