aberrance

English

Alternative forms

aberrancy

Etymology

From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberrō (“to wander from the way”) + -ance

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩s/, /æˈbɛɹ.n̩ts/

Noun

aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)

State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17^th century.][1]

Translations

state of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude

Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) (otklonenie) (от правилния път)
Dutch: afwijking (nl) f, afdwaling (nl) m
Finnish: poikkeama
French: aberrance (fr) f
German: Abweichung (de) f

Interlingua: aberrantia
Portuguese: aberração (pt) f, aberrância f
Romanian: aberanță f
Spanish: aberración (es) f

References

“aberrance” in Lesley Brown, editor, The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 5th edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 4.

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /a.bɛ.ʁɑ̃s/
Audio (file)

Noun

aberrance f (plural aberrances)

(statistics) character of what is aberrant
(uncommon) an aberration or anomaly

Further reading

“aberrance” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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