aberrancy

English

Etymology

From aberrance + -y.

Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA(key): /æ.ˈbɛɹ.n̩.si/, /ˈæ.bɛɹ.n̩.sɪ/

Noun

aberrancy (countable and uncountable, plural aberrancies)

  1. The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. [from 17th c.]
    • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
      Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies.
  2. (geometry) The deviation of a curve from circular form.

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