aberrancy

Straying from normal

Aberrancy is the quality of deviating from what is normal, expected, or acceptable.

The word carries clinical or formal overtones—used in medicine for irregular heartbeats, in psychology for deviant behavior, in optics for lens distortions.

The aberrancy of his conduct raised concerns among colleagues.

Aberrance is a synonym; aberrant is the adjective.

deviation

divergence

Separation from common origin

departureAct of going away
varianceSpread around the mean
discrepancyDifference between expected and actual

irregularity · distortion · shift · drift · veering · swerving · deflection · detour · straying · wandering

abnormality

anomaly

Departure from the expected

mutationPermanent DNA alteration
irregularityDeparture from standard
odditySomething unusual or unexpected

singularity · exception · abnormality · atypicality · malformation · defect · deformity · monstrosity · freak · unusualness

nonconformity

maverick

Independent-minded rule-breaker

nonconformistRejects prevailing social standards
dissenterOpponent of orthodoxy
hereticChallenger of official doctrine

iconoclast · individualist · misfit · rebel · renegade · outlier · eccentric · unorthodoxy · unconventionality · heterodoxy

strangeness

bizarre

Strikingly unconventional

unusualNot often encountered
peculiarStrangely unusual
oddUnusual or not even

weird · outlandish · grotesque · freakish · uncanny · surreal · alien · exotic · preternatural · inexplicable

Opposites

adherence to norms

aberrancyconformity

Adherence to norms

normalcy · normality · conformance · conventionality · orthodoxy

regularity and consistency

aberrancyregularity

Consistent, predictable occurrence

consistency · uniformity · constancy · predictability · steadiness

Family

aberrant, aberrance, aberrantly

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