deviant
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/
Forms: form: deviants
Etymology: From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”.
* (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.
Senses: examples: text: He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
glosses: A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
examples: text: As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.
glosses: A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
examples: text: In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance).
ref: 2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 1709:
text: While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly.
ref: 2009, Grekkikay, post on how to critique art; quoted in Linda Vigdor, “Constructing Learning through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production”, in Hiesun Cecilia Suhr, editor, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture), New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, 2015, section “Creative Evaluation as Practiced in Three Critique Environments”, exhibit 2 (DeviantArt.com), pages 87–88:
text: Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters.
ref: 2013 February 22, Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Ali Salah, “Flow of innovation in deviantArt: following artists on an online social network site”, in Mind & Society, volume 12, pages 137–149:
text: Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).
ref: 2016, Brian Lee Jones, “Deviously Deviant: The Strange Tapestry that is deviantART.com”, in Barbara Guzzetti, Mellinee Lesley, editors, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media (Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 390:
text: “Deviants continue to own their own works,” [Angelo] Sotira wrote. “In the future, there's a possibility Wix might provide opportunities for you to license your work — only if you want to — to more people around the world.”
ref: 2017 February 24, Natt Garun, “Wix has acquired DeviantArt, which may let artists license their work for the site builder”, in The Verge:
related: word: Deviant
glosses: A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
Synonyms: sense: person who deviates
word: heteroclite
word: nonconformist
word: maverick
sense: thing that deviates
word: abnormality
word: irregularity
word: outlier
word: anomaly
Derived terms: deviantization
deviantize
nondeviant
phenodeviant