Deviant vs Insane - What's the difference?
deviant | insane | Related terms |
Of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
Exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.
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Used by, or appropriated to, insane persons; as, an insane hospital.
Causing insanity or madness.
Characterized by insanity or the utmost folly; chimerical; unpractical; as, an insane plan, attempt, etc.
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As adjectives the difference between deviant and insane
is that deviant is of or pertaining to a deviation; characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard while insane is exhibiting unsoundness or disorder of mind; not sane; mad; deranged in mind; delirious; distracted.As a noun deviant
is a person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.deviant
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.
Noun
(en noun)- He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
- As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant .
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(defiant)References
* Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary , 1987-1996. ----insane
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- What is the cause of insanity?
Nobody can answer such a sweeping question as that,
but we know that certain diseases, such as syphilis, break
down and destroy the brain cells and result in insanity. In
fact, about one-half of all mental diseases can be attributed
to such physical causes as brain lesions, alcohol, toxins,
and injuries. But the other half—and this is the appalling
part of the story—the other half of the people who go in-
sane' apparently have nothing organically wrong with
their brain cells. In post-mortem examinations, when their
brain tissues are studied under the highest-powered micro-
scopes, they are found to be apparently just as healthy as
yours and mine.
Why do these people go ' insane ?
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The preposterous altruism too!
