Shifting vs Aberrant - What's the difference?
shifting | aberrant | Related terms |
A shift or change; a shifting movement.
* (Charles Lamb)
* 1978 , Jack Vance, The View from Chickweed's Window
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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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)- 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.
- Then everyone moved at the same time — slight shiftings of the hands and feet, furtive easings of position.
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.