Exception

Noun

 * 1) The act of excepting or excluding; exclusion; restriction by taking out something which would otherwise be included, as in a class, statement, rule.
 * 2) That which is excepted or taken out from others; a person, thing, or case, specified as distinct, or not included; as, almost every general rule has its exceptions.
 * 3)  An objection, on legal grounds; also, as in conveyancing, a clause by which the grantor excepts or reserves something before the right is transferred.
 * 4) An objection; cavil; dissent; disapprobation; offense; cause of offense; &mdash; usually followed by to or against.
 * 5)  An interruption in normal processing, especially as caused by an error condition.

Derived terms

 * exception that proves the rule
 * take exception
 * there is an exception to every rule
 * without exception

Related terms

 * except
 * exceptional

Adjectives for Exception
notable;  memorable;   violent;   trifling; marked; conspicuous; solitary; occasional; delightful; important; innumerable (pi); rare; possible; inexcusable; honorable.

Verbs for Exception
answer—; appeal for—; ban—; bar—; declare—; defend—; demand—; examine —; expose to—; justify—; lodge—; produce—; protect—; provide—; rule—; state —; take—to; —appears.

Thesaurus
abjuration, abjurement, abnormality, adverse criticism, allowance, amazement, animadversion, anomaly, answer, argument, aspersion, astonishing thing, astonishment, bad notices, bad press, ban, bar, barring, beef, bitch, blockade, blockage, boycott, call into question, captiousness, carping, cavil, caviling, censoriousness, cession, challenge, charter, chucking, chucking out, circumscription, complaint, compunction, concession, condition, contempt, contradiction, conversation piece, counterstatement, criticism, curio, curiosity, debarment, debarring, declination, declining, defense, demarcation, demonstration, demur, demurrer, denial, departure, despisal, despising, diplomatic immunity, disagree with, disapproval, discard, discharge, disclamation, discounting, dismissal, disownment, disregard, embargo, exclusion, exemption, expostulation, extenuating circumstances, faultfinding, flak, franchise, freak, gazingstock, grain of salt, grant, grievance, grievance committee, hairsplitting, hedge, hedging, hit, home thrust, hostile criticism, howl, hypercriticalness, hypercriticism, ignoring, immunity, improbability, imputation, inadmissibility, indignation meeting, injunction, irregularity, kick, knock, legislative immunity, liberty, license, limitation, lockout, march, marvel, marvelment, mental reservation, miracle, modification, museum piece, nagging, narrowing, niggle, niggling, nit, nit-picking, nonacceptance, nonadmission, nonapproval, nonconsideration, nonesuch, nonviolent protest, object to, objection, obloquy, oddity, omission, oppose, overcriticalness, passing by, patent, peculiarity, permission, pestering, pettifogging, phenomenon, picketing, plea, pleading, preclusion, priggishness, privilege, prodigiosity, prodigy, prohibition, protest, protest demonstration, protestation, provision, proviso, putting away, putting out, qualification, qualm, quibble, quibbling, quirk, quite a thing, rally, rap, rarity, rebuff, rebuttal, recantation, reflection, refusal, refutation, rejection, release, relegation, remonstrance, remonstration, renouncement, reply, reproachfulness, repudiation, repulse, reservation, response, restriction, riposte, salvo, scouting, scruple, sensation, sight, sit-in, slam, something else, special case, special demurrer, special pleading, special treatment, specialness, specification, spectacle, spurning, squawk, statement of defense, stipulation, strange thing, stricture, strike, string, stunner, swipe, taboo, take exception to, taking exception, teach-in, term, throwing out, trichoschistism, turning out, waiver, wonder, wonderful thing, wonderment

Etymology
From the exceptio:.

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Estonian: erand
 * Faroese: undantak
 * Finnish:


 * German:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàgail a-mach
 * Serbian: iznimka, izuzetak , izuzeće


 * Arabic: استثناء
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Estonian: erand
 * Finnish:
 * French:


 * German:
 * Greek: εξαίρεση
 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: fàgail a-mach


 * Finnish:


 * Latin:


 * Finnish:, vastustus


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,


 * Greek: εξαίρεση
 * Polish:


 * : exception
 * : excepción
 * : eccezione

Noun

 * 1) exception

Derived terms

 * à l'exception de