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Aberrant vs Felonious - What's the difference?

aberrant | felonious |

As adjectives the difference between aberrant and felonious

is that aberrant is differing from the norm while felonious is of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious.

As a noun aberrant

is a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

aberrant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Differing from the norm.
  • (sometimes, figuratively) Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.
  • (botany, zoology) Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
  • * ,
    • The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

    Derived terms

    * aberrance * aberrancy * aberration * aberrational * aberrantly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.
  • (biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

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    felonious

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of, relating to, being, or having the quality of felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; traitorous; perfidious.
  • * (rfdate) (John Milton):
    • O thievish Night, / Why should'st thou, but for some felonious end, / In thy dark lantern thus close up the stars?
  • (legal) Done with intent to commit a crime.
    • felonious homicide

    Derived terms

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