What is "deviant" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does deviant mean in English? Meaning of deviant definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "deviant" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "deviant": a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior

Noun

  • Meaning: a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
  • Synonyms: degenerate deviant deviate pervert
  • Hyponyms: bugger child molester fetishist lech lecher letch masochist nympho nymphomaniac paederast paedophile pederast pedophile sadist sadomasochist satyr sod sodomist sodomite
  • Hypernyms: miscreant reprobate
  • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/

    Meaning of "deviant": markedly different from an accepted norm

    Adjective

  • Meaning: markedly different from an accepted norm
  • Example: aberrant behavior deviant ideas
  • Synonyms: aberrant deviant deviate
  • Similar: abnormal unnatural
  • Pronunciation in UK: /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/

  • Adjective: Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard. At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.
  • Synonyms:

    bent, irregular, variant, queer, weird, wandering, aberrant, anomalous, atypical, devious, divergent, heretical, kinky, off-key, perverse, perverted, preternatural, twisted, unorthodox, untypical, varying, wayward, freaky, heteroclite, unrepresentative,

    Antonyms:

    usual, standard, regular, normal, same,

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