Audacity vs Aberrant - What's the difference?
audacity | aberrant |
Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
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Fearlessness, intrepid daring.
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 nouns the difference between audacity and aberrant
is that audacity is insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional while aberrant is a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.As an adjective aberrant is
differing from the norm .audacity
English
Noun
(audacities)- The brash private had the audacity to criticize the general.
- Somebody never pays his loans, yet he has the audacity to ask the bank for money.
Synonyms
* (insolent boldness) audaciousness, outdaciousness, temerityExternal links
* * *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.
