aberrance
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance
Pronunciation
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Noun
aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)
- State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17th century.][1]
Translations
state of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude
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References
- ^ 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
Pronunciation
Noun
aberrance f (plural aberrances)
- (statistics) character of what is aberrant
- (uncommon) an aberration or anomaly
Further reading
- “aberrance”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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