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Shifting vs Aberrant - What's the difference?

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Shifting is a related term of aberrant.


As nouns the difference between shifting and aberrant

is that shifting is a shift or change; a shifting movement while aberrant is a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

As a verb shifting

is .

As an adjective aberrant is

differing from the norm .

shifting

English

Verb

(head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shift or change; a shifting movement.
  • * (Charles Lamb)
  • I remember the last time I saw Macbeth played, the discrepancy I felt at the changes of garment which he varied, the shiftings and reshiftings, like a Romish priest at mass.
  • * 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
  • Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.

    aberrant

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • 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.
  • * ,
  • The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

    Derived terms

    * aberrance * aberrancy * aberration * aberrational * aberrantly

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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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