Idiosyncratic vs Aberrant - What's the difference?
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Peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric.
* 1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde , ch. 9:
* 1891 , (George MacDonald), The Flight of the Shadow , ch. 12:
* 1982 , Michael Walsh, "
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.
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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.
Idiosyncratic is a related term of aberrant.
As adjectives the difference between idiosyncratic and aberrant
is that idiosyncratic is peculiar to a specific individual; eccentric while aberrant is differing from the norm .As a noun aberrant is
a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.idiosyncratic
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At the time, I set it down to some idiosyncratic , personal distaste . . . but I have since had reason to believe the cause to lie much deeper in the nature of man.
- It was no merely idiosyncratic experience, for the youth had the same: it was love!
Music: A Fresh Falstaff in Los Angeles," Time , 26 April:
- British Director Ronald Eyre kept the action crisp; he was correctly content to execute the composer's wishes, rather than impose a fashionably idiosyncratic view of his own.
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*aberrant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.