aberrancy
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
aberrancy (countable and uncountable, plural aberrancies)
- The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. [from 17th c.]
- 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:
- Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies.
- (geometry) The deviation of a curve from circular form.
References
- “aberrancy”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
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