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
- a temporary aberration of his exhausted mind
- A childless woman was regarded as an aberration, almost a social outcast.
Extra Examples- Economists dismissed last month's jump in inflation as an aberration.
- It was a temporary aberration of his exhausted mind.
- 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’.