English

Noun

1. Variant of aberrance. A wandering or deviating from the right way; especially, a deviation from truth or rectitude.

Quotations

• 1871: Thomas Hardy, Desperate Remedies

  A little like other men of his temperament, to whom, it is somewhat humiliating to think, the aberrancy of a given love is in itself a recommendation.

• 1905: Hugo de Vries, Species and Varieties: Their Origin by Mutation

  In some cases this fissure extends to the petals of the flowers, and changes them in a way quite analogous to the aberrancy of the leaves.

References

• An abnormality of chromosomes

• A disorder in one's mental state (see Mental illness)

• Optical aberration, an imperfection in image formation by an optical system
  • Spherical aberration, which occurs when light rays strike a lens or mirror near its edge
  • Chromatic aberration, caused by differences in refractive index for different wavelengths of light
  • Defocus aberration, which occurs when a system is out of focus

• Aberration of light, an astronomical phenomenon which produces an apparent motion of celestial objects
• Relativistic aberration, aberration of light relating to near light speeds

• Aberration (Dungeons & Dragons), a creature type in the role-playing game
• Aberration (film), the horror movie