mental+aberration

  • 11aberration — I (abnormality) noun alienation, declension, deflection, departure, derailment, deviation, digression, discrepancy, dislocation, disorientation, displacement, divergence, divergency, diversion, irregularity, lapse, misdirection, refraction,… …

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  • 12aberration — [ab΄ər ā′shən] n. [L abberatio < aberrare: see ABERRANT] 1. a departure from what is right, true, correct, etc. 2. a deviation from the normal or the typical 3. mental derangement or lapse 4. Astron. a small, periodic apparent change in the… …

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  • 13aberration — ► NOUN 1) a departure from what is normal or acceptable. 2) a mental or moral lapse. 3) Optics the failure of rays to converge at one focus because of a defect in a lens or mirror. DERIVATIVES aberrational adjective. ORIGIN Latin, from aberrare… …

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  • 14aberration — aberrational, adj. /ab euh ray sheuhn/, n. 1. the act of departing from the right, normal, or usual course. 2. the act of deviating from the ordinary, usual, or normal type. 3. deviation from truth or moral rectitude. 4. mental irregularity or… …

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  • 15mental deficiency — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,… …

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  • 16aberration — Synonyms and related words: aberrance, aberrancy, abet, abnormality, abnormity, alienation, amorphism, anomalism, anomalousness, anomaly, bend, bias, brain damage, brainsickness, branching off, centrifugence, circuitousness, clouded mind, conceit …

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  • 17mental illness — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, brain damage, brain disease, brainsickness, clouded mind, crack up, craziness, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, emotional disorder,… …

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  • 18aberration — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. deviation, variation, distortion, disorientation; aberrance, insanity; error. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Deviation] Syn. irregularity, lapse, wandering; see difference 2 . 2. [Abnormality] Syn.… …

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  • 19aberration —   n. deviation; momentary mental lapse; Astronomy, apparent deviation from heavenly body s true position due to movement of observer with the earth.    ♦ chromatic aberration, focusing of light of different colours at different points resulting… …

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  • 20mental disorder — noun (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness • Syn: ↑mental disturbance, ↑disturbance, ↑psychological disorder, ↑folie • Topics: ↑psychiatry, ↑ …

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