Insatiable vs Aberrant - What's the difference?
insatiable | aberrant |
Not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire.
* 1843'' '', book 2, ch. 4, ''Abbot Hugo
* 1885 — [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZgVUqbK-_1EC&pg=PA19&dq=mikado++insatiable&sig=a932jEhYrf-l6EOJvgvNfxO6kHE]
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.
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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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As adjectives the difference between insatiable and aberrant
is that insatiable is not satiable; incapable of being satisfied or appeased; very greedy; as, an insatiable appetite, thirst, or desire while aberrant is differing from the norm .As a noun aberrant is
a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.insatiable
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- Hugo, in a fine frenzy, threatens to depose the Sacristan, to do this and do that; but, in the mean while, how to quiet your insatiable' Jew? Hugo, for this couple of hundreds, grants the Jew his bond for four hundred payable at the end of four years. (...) Neither yet is this ' insatiable Jew satisfied or settled with: he had papers against us of 'small debts fourteen years old;' his modest claim amounts finally to 'Twelve hundred pounds besides interest'
- Such an appointment would realize my fondest dreams. But no, at any sacrifice, I must set bounds to my insatiable ambition!
Usage notes
* Nouns to which "insatiable" is often applied: appetite, desire, curiosity, thirst, hunger, need, greed.External links
* *Anagrams
* ----aberrant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.