| 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 |
| Main Entry: | eccentricity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bizarreness, unusualness |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
Antonyms: |
commonality, dullness, normality, regularness, standard, uniformity, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | quirkiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eccentricity |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, singularity, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| Main Entry: | singularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | eccentricity |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, anomaly, caprice, capriciousness, foible, freakishness, hereticism, idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, kink, nonconformity, oddity, oddness, outlandishness, peculiarity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, strangeness, unconventionality, unorthodoxness, waywardness, weirdness, whimsicality, whimsicalness |
| 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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