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deviance
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
In sociology , deviance describes an action or behavior that violates social norms , including a formally enacted rule (e.g., crime ), as well as informal violations of social norms (e.g., rejecting folkways and mores ). It is the purview of criminologists ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance , aberrancy , aberration ] deviate behavior [syn: deviation ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
deviance \deviance\ n. an aberrant state or condition. Syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration. deviate behavior. Syn: deviation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1944; see deviant + -ance . A sociologists' word, perhaps coined because statisticians and astronomers already had claimed deviation .
Usage examples of deviance.
If anonymity increases deviant behavior, then one way to deal with that deviance would be to decrease anonymity.
So I started my own sheet of instructions that included this and all the other deviances and omissions the engineers never bothered to fix.
But fleetwide arrays logged signal deviance similar to the brownout incident, just prior to the neural event that seems to have taken out the surface elements.
In China deviance is a capital offence, I don't know about living in a country where my natural tendancies could see me end up with the traditional rememdy of a bullet in the back of the head.