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Aberrant vs Nonstandard - What's the difference?

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Aberrant is a related term of nonstandard.


As adjectives the difference between aberrant and nonstandard

is that aberrant is differing from the norm while nonstandard is not standard.

As nouns the difference between aberrant and nonstandard

is that aberrant is a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group while nonstandard is something that is not standard.

aberrant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Differing from the norm.
  • (sometimes, figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
  • (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
  • * ,
    • The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

    Derived terms

    * aberrance * aberrancy * aberration * aberrational * aberrantly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
  • (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

    • References

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    nonstandard

    English

    Alternative forms

    * non-standard

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not standard.
  • (linguistics) Not conforming to the language as used by the majority of its speakers.
  • *
    • The resulting sequence of covert wh-pronoun + Complementiser'' has an overt counterpart in nonstandard varieties of English, as the following example (recorded from a BBC radio programme) illustrates:
    (91)      England put themselves in a position [''whereby that     they took a lot of credit for tonight?s game] (Ron Greenwood, BBC radio 4)

    Derived terms

    * nonstandard dialect * nonstandard item * nonstandard method * nonstandard unit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is not standard.
  • * 2008 , Robert Cowart, Brian Knittel, Special Edition Using Microsoft Windows Vista (page 438)
    • Unlike the TV standard we are all accustomed to, the Web is the wild, wild West of video nonstandards .