aberration

Examples

• All

• After years of stability, the fluctuations in the data were considered an aberration that warranted further analysis.

• Such frequent swarming, he read, was an aberration for that time of year.

  Fiction book (1993)

• So I think it's an aberration of the beauty of life.

  Liam Tuffs

• Our family had no doubt about who they were, but I was an aberration in that household.

  Gods and Monsters (1998)

• Whatever it is, it appears to be a genetic aberration.

  Leviathan (1989)

• Today, refugees are viewed as a peripheral concern, a kind of aberration from the normal order of things.

  Academic text (1993)

• Slavery was an aberration, inconsistent with the very principles of a nation conceived in liberty.

  Academic text (1999)

• It is an aberration.

  The Poet (2007)

• The police commissioner defended the rising tide of crime as a statistical aberration tied to growing unemployment and the humidity of...

  Gone Baby Gone (2007)

• I assure you, Brice Sutherland's escape was an aberration, and he will be recaptured.

  Bermuda Triangle Exposed (2011)

Synonyms

D

distortion

vsaberration

26 5.0

A change in shape or appearance that makes things look less accurate

is about change in form or accuracy, not a broad unusual state

A

abnormality

vsaberration

11 5.2

Something that is not normal and can be seen in the body or test results

is stronger stressing being very different rather than simply unusual

A

aberrance

vsaberration

9.2

A change from what is normal or expected

is the same meaning but differs only as an alternative form

A

aberrancy

vsaberration

9.9

A state of being very different from what is normal

is the same meaning but appears as another variant form

Antonyms

R

regularity

19 3.3

Happening often in the same way or at the same times

N

normality

13 3.5

A time when things are usual and happen as expected

Compounds

C

chromatic aberration

• Specialized

1 8.8

A problem in a camera lens that makes colored edges appear in photos

S

spherical aberration

• Specialized

1 9.5

Light through the edge of a round lens or mirror focuses at different points, making the image blurred

C

chromosomal aberration

• Specialized

1 8.9

A change in the usual number or shape of chromosomes that often causes physical and mental problems

O

optical aberration

• Specialized

7.4

A fault in a lens or mirror that makes images look unclear

How Different

aberration

37 7.7

anomaly

165 7.1

oddity

15 5.3

variation

113 3.0

difference

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology