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Deviant vs Extraordinary - What's the difference?

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As adjectives the difference between deviant and extraordinary

is that deviant is of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard while extraordinary is not ordinary; exceptional; unusual.

As a noun deviant

is a person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.

deviant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
    • At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
    • He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
  • A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
    • As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .

    See also

    (defiant)

    References

    * Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----

    extraordinary

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not ordinary; exceptional; unusual;
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  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=52, magazine=(The Economist)
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  • Remarkably good.

    • Usage notes

    * Can be said of all kinds of objects including people, events, things, and terms. * The pronunciation "extrordinary" is often preferred so as to avoid confusion with "extra ordinary", which would be defined as "more ordinary than usual".

    Synonyms

    *

    Antonyms

    * everyday, normal, ordinary, regular, usual

    Derived terms

    * extraordinary optical transmission * extraordinary professor * extraordinary rendition