aberration
noun/ˌæbəˈreɪʃn/
/ˌæbəˈreɪʃn/
[countable, uncountable] (formal)- a fact, an action or a way of behaving that is not usual, and that may be unacceptable
- It was a temporary aberration of his exhausted mind.
- Economists dismissed last month's jump in inflation as an aberration.
Extra Examples- It was nothing more than a mental aberration on my part.
- They claimed he was a caring parent who had used violence in a moment of aberration.
Word Originlate 16th cent.: from Latin aberratio(n-), from aberrare ‘to stray’, from ab- ‘away, from’ + errare ‘to stray’.
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