Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. an aberrant state or condition.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A wandering or deviating from the right way; especially, a deviation from truth or rectitude. Another form is aberrance.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a state or condition markedly different from the norm
Etymologies
Examples
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One of these authors had been a resident under Kulko - As a resident conducting research with Kuklo, Andersen said he noticed "an aberrancy in typical research" that involved "discarding inconsistent findings which did not fit his hypothesis."
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And, the different ratios of men and women researchers in other fields would be the aberrancy.
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The tears that Lesley cries are the secretions of chance, of her blindness to its aberrancy, and they wash her adolescent eyes with stinging hindsight.
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* Indeed, the relative paucity of genetic aberrancy in this leukemia may be one reason that this tumor is so easily felled by cytotoxic chemotherapy.
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Because the majority of our population perceives addiction as an aberrancy that applies to “somebody else” (these days, itself a sure sign of hubris), only a very small percentage of Americans understand the 12 Step programs as a process.
The Structural Nuts and Bolts of The Great Leveling, Revisited
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Initially, I gave this about 10 seconds of thought and marked it down as a polling aberrancy, something that will not happen.
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This emphasis, combined with a characteristic desire to embrace all the phenomena and see the typical while at the same time keeping an eye out for aberrancy explains a new and growing interest in matters of sound.
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Referring to the statutes of the States prohibiting marriage between the whites and the blacks (III, 38), he says: "The necessity for such legislation calls in question the supposed antipathy between the races, unless the intention is merely to guard against the aberrancy of atypical individuals."
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Even to the naturalist it is annoying to have his deductions disturbed by some unforeseen aberrancy of form or function; and how much more so to the wife whose estimate of herself is inevitably bound up with her judgment of her husband!
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_Lecideaceae_ with respect to thallus development and general apothecial characters, the aberrancy being with respect to the spores, on which account the two genera are placed in another family, the _Buelliaceae_, by some workers, perhaps with sufficient reason.
Ohio Biological Survey, Bull. 10, Vol. 11, No. 6 The Ascomycetes of Ohio IV and V
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