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| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, variance, variation, deflection, hereticism, turning |
| Antonyms: | conformity, sameness, uniformity, straightforwardness |
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| Synonyms: |
-nouns
deviation; swerving; obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination., diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence [more]; zigzag; detour (circuit) [more]; divagation., [Desultory motion] wandering; vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad., [Motion sideways, oblique motion] sidling; knight's move at chess.
-verbs
alter one's course, deviate, depart from, turn, trend; bend, curve [more]; swerve, heel, bear off; gybe, wear., intervert; deflect; divert, divert from its course; put on a new scent, shift, shunt, draw aside, crook, warp., stray, straggle; sidle; diverge [more]; tralineate; digress, wander; wind, twist, meander; veer, tack; divagate; sidetrack; turn aside, turn a corner, turn away from; wheel, steer clear of; ramble, rove, drift; go astray, go adrift; yaw, dodge; step aside, ease off, make way for, shy., fly off at a tangent; glance off; wheel about, face about; turn to the right about, face to the right about; waddle (oscillate) [more]; go out of one's way (perform a circuit) [more]; lose one's way.
-adjectives
deviating; aberrant, errant; excursive, discursive; devious, desultory, loose; rambling; stray, erratic, vagrant, undirected, curcuitous, indirect, zigzag; crab-like.
-adverbs
astray from, round about, wide of the mark; to the right about; all manner of ways; circuitously [more]., obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.
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| Main Entry: | abnormality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberration, anomaly, deformity, deviation, eccentricity, exception, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, strangeness, aberrancy, anomalism, atypicalness, bizarreness, deviance, deviancy, extraordinariness, preternaturalness, singularity, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
| Antonyms: | normality, sameness, standard, normalness |
| Main Entry: | anomaly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation from normal, usual |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | conformity, normality, regularity, standard, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvature, deviation, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag, curvation, deflection, flection, flexure |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | detour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect course |
| Synonyms: | back road, branch, bypass, circuit, crotch, deviation, divergence, diversion, fork, service road, substitute, alternate route, bypath, byway, circuitous route, circumbendibus, circumnavigation, circumvention, roundabout way, runaround, secondary highway, temporary route |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, crotch, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, diversity, division, fork, mutation, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, variety, varying, alterity, deflection, dissemblance, dissimilitude, divagation, divergency, otherness, turning, unlikeness |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | error |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mistake; wrong |
| Synonyms: | absurdity, blunder, boner*, delinquency, delusion, deviation, erratum, failure, fall, fallacy, falsehood, falsity, fault, faux pas, flaw, glitch, goof*, inaccuracy, lapse, misconception, miscue, misdeed, miss, misstep, misunderstanding, offense, omission, oversight, sin, slight, slip, slipup, solecism, stumble, transgression, trespass, untruth, wrongdoing, X*, bad job, boo-boo, howler, misapprehension, misbelief, miscalculation, misjudgment, mismanagement, screamer, screw-up |
| Antonyms: | accuracy, certainty, correction, right, truth, validity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | innovation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, novelty |
| Synonyms: | addition, alteration, contraption, cutting edge*, departure, deviation, introduction, last word*, latest thing*, leading edge*, modification, mutation, newness, notion, permutation, shift, variation, vicissitude, wrinkle*, modernism, modernization |
| Antonyms: | custom, habit, old, old hat, rut, tradition |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mutant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mutation |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, deformity, deviation, freak, monster, freak of nature |
| Main Entry: | mutation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | metamorphosis |
| Synonyms: | alteration, anomaly, change, deviant, deviation, evolution, innovation, modification, mutant, novelty, permutation, transformation, variation, vicissitude, transfiguration |
| Antonyms: | inaction, stagnation |
| Main Entry: | neurosis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mental disturbance, disorder |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, affliction, breakdown, compulsion, derangement, deviation, hysteria, inhibition, insanity, instability, madness, mental illness, obsession, phobia, crack-up, maladjustment, neurasthenia, personality disorder, psychological disorder, psychopathy |
| Notes: | neurosis is a disorder of the central nervous system and it has come to be used as a shortened form of psychoneurosis, a mildly disturbing emotional or physical condition brought on by a mental state, while psychosis is a severe emotional disturbance |
| Antonyms: | adjustment, balance, sanity |
| Main Entry: | red herring |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | misleading clue |
| Synonyms: | attention-grabber, bait, commotion, curve ball, deviation, distraction, distractor, disturbance, diversion, diversionary tactic, false clue, false face, false trail, fool's errand, gimmick, interruption, maneuver, ploy, smoke screen, wild-goose chase* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | slope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | slant, tilt |
| Synonyms: | bank, bend, bevel, bias, cant, declivity, descent, deviation, diagonal, downgrade, gradient, hill, inclination, incline, lean, leaning, pitch, ramp, rise, shelf, skew, swag, sway, tip, abruptness, declination, deflection, obliqueness, obliquity, rising ground, steepness |
| Antonyms: | evenness, level |
| Main Entry: | variance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference |
| Synonyms: | about-face*, argument, change, conflict, contention, deviation, difference of opinion, disagreement, discord, discrepancy, dissension, dissent, dissidence, divergence, diversity, division, flip-flop*, fluctuation, incongruity, inconsistency, mutation, separation, strife, switch, variation, variety, different strokes, disaccord, disunity, mid-course correction, severing, sundering, transmogrification, unharmoniousness |
| Antonyms: | agreement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | variation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | difference; alternative |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, adaptation, alteration, bend, break, change, contrast, curve, departure, deviation, digression, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, fluctuation, inequality, innovation, modification, mutation, novelty, shift, swerve, turn, variety, contradistinction, deflection, departure from the norm, displacement, dissimilitude, diversification, unconformity |
| Antonyms: | agreement, root, similarity, source |
| Main Entry: | inconsistency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discrepancy |
| Synonyms: | deviation, difference, disagreement, disparity, disproportion, dissimilarity, dissonance, divergence, incongruity, inequality, paradox, variance, contrariety, disproportionateness, inconsonance, unlikeness |
| Antonyms: | congruity, consistency, similarity |
| Main Entry: | standard deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | predictable difference |
| Synonyms: | deviation, SD, normal deviation, predictable error, probable error, range of error, standard error |
| Main Entry: | veering |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | swerve |
| Synonyms: | change, detour, deviation |
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