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aberration
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synonyms: incongruity ???
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Definition:1. a departure from the normal course of action2. a deviation from truth or moral rectitude
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they never agreed in any opinion, and had long, indeed, been accustomed to jeer without anger, each at the other's incorrigible aberrations.
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina
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In the C vocabulary, which consisted of scientific and technical words, it might be necessary to give specialised names to certain sexual aberrations, but the ordinary citizen had no need of them.
George Orwell. 1984 (1949)
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