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n. - A state or condition markedly different from the norm.

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  • And, the different ratios of men and women researchers in other fields would be the aberrancy.
  • Initially, I gave this about 10 seconds of thought and marked it down as a polling aberrancy, something that will not happen.
  • This emphasis, combined with a characteristic desire to embrace all the phenomena and see the typical while at the same time keeping an eye out for aberrancy explains a...
  • Because the majority of our population perceives addiction as an aberrancy that applies to “somebody else” (these days, itself a sure sign of hubris), only a very small...
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