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Criterion vs Deviance - What's the difference?

criterion | deviance |

As nouns the difference between criterion and deviance

is that criterion is a standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged while deviance is deviance (variation from expected behavior or form).

criterion

English

Alternative forms

* (nonstandard) * criterium

Noun

(criteria)
  • A standard or test by which individual things or people may be compared and judged.
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    • , title= Letters: Say it as simply as possible , passage=Congratulations on managing to use the phrase “preponderant criterion ” in a chart (“ On your marks”, November 9th). Was this the work of a kakorrhaphiophobic journalist set a challenge by his colleagues, or simply an example of glossolalia?}}

    Usage notes

    * The plural form criterions also exists, but is much less common. * The form criteria is sometimes used as a nonstandard singular form (as in a criteria'', ''this criteria , and so on), with corresponding plural form criterias. In this use, it sometimes means “a single criterion”, sometimes “a set of criteria”.

    Related terms

    * criterial * crisis * critic * criticize * critical

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    deviance

    English

    (wikipedia deviance)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (sociology) Actions or behaviors that violate formal and informal cultural norms such as laws and customs
  • A person or thing that differs from the expected.

    • Related terms

    * deviant * deviation