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exception - 19 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving out |
| Synonyms: | barring, exclusion, expulsion, omission, rejection, repudiation, reservation, debarment, disallowment, excepting, excusing, noninclusion, passing over |
| Antonyms: | admittance, allowance, inclusion, admittal |
| Main Entry: | exception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | special case; irregularity |
| Synonyms: | allowance, anomaly, departure, deviation, difference, dispensation, eccentricity, exemption, freak, inconsistency, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, anomalism, perquisitor, privileged person |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity, usualness |
| 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: | exclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion; forbiddance |
| Synonyms: | ban, bar, blackball*, blockade, boycott, cut, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, occlusion, omission, ostracism, prevention, prohibition, refusal, rejection, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto, coventry, debarment, debarring, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, ousting, preclusion, proscription, relegation |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | exemption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom from a responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release |
| Antonyms: | accountability, liability, responsibility, answerability |
| Main Entry: | impunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, permission, privilege, security, nonliability |
| Notes: | impunity is protection from punishment, just as immunity is protection from disease |
| Antonyms: | imprisonment, incarceration |
| Main Entry: | nonconformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, behavior different from most |
| Synonyms: | breach, denial, disaffection, disagreement, disapproval, disobedience, dissent, eccentricity, exception, heresy, insubordination, lawlessness, negation, noncompliance, objection, opposition, originality, rejection, strangeness, veto, violation, bohemianism, contumaciousness, disapprobation, discordance, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, mutinousness, nonacceptance, nonagreement, nonconsent, recalcitrance, recusance, recusancy, transgressiveness, unconventionality, uniqueness, unorthodoxy, unruliness |
| Antonyms: | compliance, conformity, obedience, orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | objection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | argument, disagreement |
| Synonyms: | cavil, censure, challenge, criticism, demur, difficulty, disapproval, discontent, disinclination, dislike, displeasure, dissatisfaction, doubt, exception, grievance, gripe, hesitation, kick, niggle*, odium, opposition, protest, question, rejection, reluctance, remonstrance, scruple, shrinking, squawk*, stink*, counter-argument, declination, demurral, demurring, disapprobation, disesteem, protestation, remonstration, repugnancy, revilement, unwillingness |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, agreement, concurrence, consent |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, spectacle, one for the books, rara avis, something else, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | variant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | derived form |
| Synonyms: | alternative, branch, development, exception, irregularity, modification, result, variation, version, spinoff |
| Antonyms: | base, root |
| 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: | small print |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | tiny print in document |
| Synonyms: | escape clause, exception, fine print, proviso, saving clause, strings |
| Main Entry: | difference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissimilarity, distinctness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, change, characteristic, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discrepancy, disparity, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, peculiarity, separation, variance, variation, variety, asymmetry, contrariety, contrariness, discongruity, dissemblance, heterogeneity, particularity, separateness, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity, alikeness |
| Main Entry: | rarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | infrequency |
| Synonyms: | exception, irregularity, oddity, scarcity, rareness, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, limitation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, catch, codicil, contingency, demand, essential, exception, exemption, fine print, modification, must, necessity, postulate, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, reservation, rule, small print*, stipulation, terms, kicker, precondition, sine qua non, strings |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | qualification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, restriction |
| Synonyms: | allowance, caveat, condition, contingency, criterion, essential, exception, exemption, limitation, modification, need, objection, postulate, prerequisite, provision, proviso, requisite, reservation, stipulation |
| Main Entry: | irregularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that is irregular |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, allowance, anomaly, characteristic, deviation, dispensation, eccentricity, exception, excess, exemption, innovation, laxity, malformation, malfunction, nonconformity, oddity, peculiarity, privilege, quirk, rarity, strangeness, looseness, singularity, unconformity, uniqueness, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | custom, regularity, rule |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
| Synonyms: | exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
| Antonyms: | denial, veto |
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