deviance
noun[U]
uk/ˈdiː.vi.əns/us/ˈdiː.vi.əns/thequalityof not beingusual, and of beinggenerallyconsideredto beunacceptable:
Any deviancefromthebudgetedprofitand there is animmediateinvestigation.
There are severalpossiblereasonswhysocialdeviance may beassociatedwithfasterdriving.
He hasrecentlydiscoveredaworldofsexualdeviance in London'sdarkcorners.
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- Theresearchrevealssocialprocessesthatincreaseordecreasetheriskofbehaviouraldeviance.
- Theslightestdeviance from theprogrammewillmeanthat it can bestoppedinstantly.
Strange, suspicious and unnatural
- aberrant
- abnormal
- abnormally
- add
- Alice-in-Wonderland
- funnily
- funnily enoughidiom
- ghostliness
- ghoul
- heterodox
- perversely
- perversity
- perverted
- pervy
- presence
- wack
- wackadoodle
- wackiness
- wacky
- warped