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Unwonted vs Aberrant - What's the difference?

unwonted | aberrant |

As adjectives the difference between unwonted and aberrant

is that unwonted is not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange while aberrant is differing from the norm .

As a noun aberrant is

a person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

unwonted

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not customary or habitual; unusual; infrequent; strange.
  • * 1610 , , act 1 scene 2
    • Be of comfort; / My father's of a better nature, sir, / Than he appears by speech: this is unwonted , / Which now came from him.
  • * 2008 , Edna Lyall, To Right the Wrong:
    • [...] enjoying in their quiet way the unwonted atmosphere of youth and happiness.
  • * 2008 , Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica :
    • On the other hand, it was not so well known among them that Moses was always to be their ruler, and so it behooved those who rebelled against his authority to be punished in a miraculous and unwonted manner.
  • * 2003 , Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything'', ''Black Swan , pg.23:
    • ...And ocean salinity, of course, represented only the merest sliver of my ignorance. I didn't know what a proton was, didn't know a quark from a quasar, didn't know how geologists could look at a layer of rock on a canyon wall and tell you how old it was, didn't know anything, really. I became gripped by a quiet, unwonted but insistent urge to know a little more about these matters and to understand above all how people figured them out.
  • (archaic) Unused (to); unaccustomed (to) something.
  • * 1924 : ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics . Translated by W. D. Ross. Nashotah, Wisconsin, USA: The Classical Library, 2001. Available at: . Book 1, Part 5.
    • we demand the language we are accustomed to, and that which is different from this seems not in keeping but somewhat unintelligible and foreign because of its unwontedness .

    Derived terms

    * unwont * unwontedly * unwontedness

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    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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