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aberration
 
NOUN:1. The condition of being abnormal: aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, anomaly, deviance, deviancy, deviation, irregularity, preternaturalness, unnaturalness. See GOOD, USUAL. 2. A departing from what is prescribed: departure, deviation, divergence, divergency, diversion. See APPROACH, CORRECT. 3. Psychology. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychiatry : mania. Psychology : alienation. See SANE.
 
 
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