aberrance

English

Alternative forms

• aberrancy

Etymology

From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩s/, /æˈbɛɹ.n̩ts/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)

1. State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17^th century.]
   • 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

state of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude

• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) (otklonenie) (от правилния път)
• Dutch: afwijking (nl) f, afdwaling (nl) m
• Finnish: poikkeama (fi)
• French: aberrance (fr) f
• German: Abweichung (de) f
• Interlingua: aberrantia
• Portuguese: aberração (pt) f, aberrância f
• Romanian: aberanță f
• Spanish: aberración (es) f

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.bɛ.ʁɑ̃s/, /a.be.ʁɑ̃s/

• Audio:

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Noun

aberrance f (plural aberrances)

1. (statistics) character of what is aberrant
2. (uncommon) an aberration or anomaly

Further reading

• “aberrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.