A state or condition markedly different from the norm.

synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, deviance.

Roget 503: disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder^†.    insanity, lunacy; madness etc. adj.; mania, rabies, furor, mental alienation, aberration; paranoia, schizophrenia; dementation^†, dementia, demency^†; phrenitis^†, phrensy^†, frenzy, raving, incoherence, wandering, delirium, calenture of the brain^†; delusion, hallucination; lycanthropy^†; brain storm^†.    vertigo, dizziness, swimming; sunstroke, coup de soleil [Fr.], siriasis^†.    fanaticism, infatuation, craze; oddity, eccentricity, twist, monomania (caprice) 608; kleptodipsomania^†; hypochondriasis [Med.] etc. (low spirits) 837; melancholia, depression, clinical depression, severe depression; hysteria; amentia^†.    screw loose, tile loose, slate loose; bee in one's bonnet, rats in the upper story.    dotage etc. (imbecility) 499.    ... show more

Roget 291: divergence, divergency^†; divarication, ramification, forking; radiation; separation etc. (disjunction) 44; dispersion etc. 73; deviation etc. 279; aberration.    ... show more

Roget 279: deviation; swerving etc. v.; obliquation^†, warp, refraction; flection^†, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure^†; declination.    diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence etc. 291; zigzag; detour etc. (circuit) 629; divagation.    [Desultory motion] wandering etc. v.; vagrancy, evagation^†; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad.    [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling etc. v.; knight's move at chess.    ... show more

Roget 20a: variation; alteration etc. (change) 140.    modification, moods and tenses; discrepance^†, discrepancy.    divergency etc. 291; deviation etc. 279; aberration; innovation.    ... show more

Roget 83: nonconformity etc. 82; unconformity, disconformity; unconventionality, informality, abnormity^†, abnormality, anomaly; anomalousness etc. adj.^†; exception, peculiarity; infraction of law, breach, of law, violation of law, violation of custom, violation of usage, infringement of law, infringement of custom, infringement of usage; teratism^†, eccentricity, bizarrerie^†, oddity, je ne sais quoi [Fr.], monster, monstrosity, rarity; freak, freak of Nature, weirdo, mutant; rouser, snorter [U.S.].    individuality, idiosyncrasy, originality, mannerism.    aberration; irregularity; variety; singularity; exemption; salvo etc. (qualification) 469.    nonconformist; nondescript, character, original, nonesuch, nonsuch^†, monster, prodigy, wonder, miracle, curiosity, flying fish, black sheep, black swan, lusus naturae [Lat.], rara avis [Lat.], queer fish; mongrel, random breed; half-caste, half-blood, half-breed; metis [Lat.], crossbreed, hybrid, mule, hinny, mulatto; tertium quid [Lat.], hermaphrodite.    [Mythical animals] phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary^†; kraken, cockatrice, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk^†; unicorn; Cyclops, men whose heads do grow beneath their men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders" [Othello]; teratology.    [unconformable to the surroundings] fish out of water; neither one thing nor another, neither fish nor fowl, neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red neither fish flesh nor fowl nor good red herring; one in a million, one in a way, one in a thousand; outcast, outlaw; off the beaten track; oasis.    ... show more

Dutch: aberratie, anomalie, afwijking

A disorder in one's mental state.

Dutch: aberratie
Polish: anormalność, nienormalność

An optical phenomenon resulting from the failure of a lens or mirror to produce a good image.

synonyms: distortion, optical aberration.

Dutch: afwijking, aberratie
Polish: aberracja