'aberration' definitions:
Definition of 'aberration'
(from WordNet)
noun
A state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance]
noun
A disorder in one's mental state
noun
An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image [syn: aberration, distortion, optical aberration]
Synonyms of 'aberration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberrance,
- aberrancy,
- abet,
- abnormality,
- abnormity,
- alienation,
- amorphism,
- anomalism,
- anomalousness,
- anomaly,
- bend,
- bias,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- branching off,
- centrifugence,
- circuitousness,
- clouded mind,
- conceit,
- corner,
- crackpotism,
- crank,
- crankiness,
- crankism,
- craziness,
- crook,
- crosswiseness,
- crotchet,
- crotchetiness,
- curiosity,
- curve,
- daftness,
- decentralization,
- declination,
- defectiveness,
- deflection,
- deflexure,
- delusion,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- departure,
- deployment,
- derangement,
- detour,
- deviance,
- deviancy,
- deviation,
- deviousness,
- diagonality,
- difference,
- differentness,
- digression,
- discursion,
- disorientation,
- distortion,
- distraction,
- divagation,
- divarication,
- divergence,
- divergency,
- diversion,
- division,
- dogleg,
- dottiness,
- double,
- drift,
- drifting,
- eccentricity,
- errancy,
- errantry,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- excursion,
- excursus,
- exorbitation,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fanning,
- fanning out,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- folie,
- foment,
- freakiness,
- freakishness,
- furor,
- hairpin,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- heteromorphism,
- idiocrasy,
- idiosyncrasy,
- illusion,
- indirection,
- indirectness,
- inferiority,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- instigate,
- irrationality,
- irregularity,
- kink,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- maggot,
- mania,
- mannerism,
- mental deficiency,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- misapplication,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mistake,
- monstrosity,
- nonconformity,
- obliqueness,
- obliquity,
- oddity,
- oddness,
- peccancy,
- peculiarity,
- pererration,
- perversion,
- pixilation,
- possession,
- prodigy,
- provoke,
- psychopathy,
- queerness,
- quip,
- quirk,
- quirkiness,
- rabidness,
- raise,
- rambling,
- rarity,
- reasonlessness,
- self-contradiction,
- senselessness,
- separation,
- set,
- set on,
- shattered mind,
- sheer,
- shift,
- shifting,
- shifting course,
- shifting path,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- singularity,
- skew,
- skewness,
- slant,
- slip,
- splaying,
- spread,
- spreading,
- spreading out,
- squint,
- stir up,
- strangeness,
- straying,
- subnormality,
- superiority,
- sweep,
- swerve,
- swerving,
- swinging,
- tack,
- teratism,
- transverseness,
- trick,
- turn,
- turning,
- twist,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unconventionality,
- unnaturalism,
- unnaturalness,
- unorthodoxy,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vagary,
- variation,
- veer,
- wandering,
- warp,
- whim,
- whimsicality,
- whimsy,
- witlessness,
- wrong,
- wrongness,
- yaw,
- zigzag