| Main Entry: | deviation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change, departure |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, anomaly, breach, crotch, deflection, detour, difference, digression, discrepancy, disparity, divergence, diversion, fluctuation, fork, hereticism, inconsistency, irregularity, modification, shift, transgression, turning, variance, variation |
Antonyms: |
conformity, sameness, straightforwardness, uniformity |
| Concept: | Deviation. |
| Category: | 4. Motion with reference to direction |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
deviation; swerving; obliquation, warp, refraction; flection, flexion; sweep; deflection, deflexure; declination., diversion, digression, depart from, aberration; divergence; zigzag; detour (circuit); 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; 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; 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); 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., obliquely, sideling, like the move of the knight on a chessboard.
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| Main Entry: | aberration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | different from that expected |
Synonyms: |
departure, deviation, difference, distortion, divergence, diversion, irregularity, lapse, straying, wandering |
Antonyms: |
conformity, sameness |
| Main Entry: | abnormality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being different from standard or norm |
Synonyms: |
aberrancy, aberration, anomalism, anomaly, atypicalness, bizarreness, deformity, deviance, deviancy, deviation, eccentricity, exception, extraordinariness, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, preternaturalness, singularity, strangeness, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
Antonyms: |
normality, normalness, sameness, standard |
| 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, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag |
Antonyms: |
line |
| Main Entry: | detour |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indirect course |
Synonyms: |
alternate route, back road, branch, bypass, bypath, byway, circuit, circuitous route, circumbendibus, circumnavigation, circumvention, crotch, deviation, divergence, diversion, fork, roundabout way, runaround, secondary highway, service road, substitute, temporary route |
| Main Entry: | difference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissimilarity, distinctness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discongruity, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness, variance, variation, variety |
| Notes: | deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, alikeness, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, alterity, crotch, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, distinction, divagation, divergency, diversity, division, fork, mutation, otherness, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, turning, unlikeness, variety, varying |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | diversion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change in a course, path |
Synonyms: |
aberration, alteration, deflection, departure, detour, deviation, digression, divergence, fake out, red herring, turning, variation |
Antonyms: |
conforming, staying |