aberration
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: derivation
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Etymology: A learned borrowing from Latin aberrātiō(n) (“relief, diversion”), first attested in 1594, from aberrō (“wander away, go astray”), from ab (“away”) + errō (“wander”). Compare French aberration. By surface analysis, aberrat(e) + -ion.
Inflected forms:
form: aberrations
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The act of wandering; deviation from truth, moral rectitude; abnormal; divergence from the straight, correct, proper, normal, or from the natural state.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: the aberration of youth
aberrations from theory
aberration of character
A derailment which occurred on April 18 last between Laindon and Pitsea on the London Tilbury & Southend Line was caused by a lengthman who in a moment of aberration clipped a set of spring catch points in the derailing position, concludes Col. J. R. H. Robertson in his report […].
The bulk of questionable experimentation upon African Americans is not detailed here because much of it consists of aberrations in therapeutics that were ostensibly meant to cure.
Our ancien regime, like the aristocracy of pre-revolutionary France, thought the party would never end. 2016 shook their historicist faith in the arc of the moral universe but by 2020 they hoped to write Trump off as an aberration. In retrospect, 2020 was the aberration, the rearguard action of a struggling regime and its struldbrugg ruler.
gloss: The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; a defect in a focusing mechanism that prevents the intended focal point.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A small periodical change of the apparent positions of the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer.
pos: noun
tags: broadly
countable
uncountable
gloss: A partial alienation of reason.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Occasional aberrations of intellect
We see indeed the aberrations of unruly appetite
gloss: Any creature with supernatural powers not found in the organized classes of beings in a given setting.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: Only by submitting to the aberration could the human traders travel safely through the territory of Zularn.
gloss: A mental disorder, especially one of a minor or temporary character.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: Atypical development or structure; deviation from the normal type; an aberrant organ.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A deviation of a tissue, organ or mental functions from what is considered to be within the normal range.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A defect in an image produced by an optical or electrostatic lens system.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
Derived words: aberratic
aberrational
aberrationless
aberration of light
annual aberration
chromatic aberration
crown of aberration
diopteric aberration
diurnal aberration
lateral aberration
longitudinal aberration
mental aberration
microaberration
planetary aberration
spherical aberration
Translations:
lang: Bulgarian
word: абера́ция
roman: aberácija
lang: Danish
word: aberration
lang: Dutch
word: aberratie
lang: Esperanto
word: aberacio
lang: Finnish
word: aberraatio
lang: French
word: aberration
lang: German
word: Aberration
lang: Hungarian
word: aberráció
lang: Irish
word: iomrall
lang: Italian
word: aberrazione
lang: Kazakh
word: аберрация
roman: aberrasiä
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: aberrasjon
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: aberrasjon
lang: Polish
word: aberracja
lang: Portuguese
word: aberração
lang: Romanian
word: aberație
lang: Russian
word: аберра́ция
roman: aberrácija
lang: Spanish
word: aberración
lang: Turkish
word: aberasyon
lang: Turkish
word: sapınç
lang: Vietnamese
word: tính sai
lang: Dutch
word: aberratie
lang: Finnish
word: poikkeama
lang: Finnish
word: aberraatio
lang: German
word: Abweichung
lang: Greek
word: παρέκκλιση
roman: parékklisi
lang: Portuguese
word: aberração
lang: Russian
word: аберра́ция
roman: aberrácija
lang: Russian
word: отклоне́ние
roman: otklonénije
lang: Spanish
word: aberración