Merriam-Webster Logo
SINCE 1828
Menu
dictionary thesaurus

Thesaurus

aberration

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of aberration

1 a serious mental disorder that prevents one from living a safe and normal life

  • Joan of Arc was certain the voices she had been hearing were not a manifestation of some sort of aberration
Synonyms of aberration

dementia, derangement, insanity, lunacy, madness, mania, rage [archaic]
Words Related to aberration

neurosis, psychosis

instability, irrationality, unreasonableness

delirium, frenzy, hysteria

hallucinosis, hypomania, paranoia, schizophrenia

senile dementia

delusion, hallucination

monomania, obsession, phobia

abnormality, dementedness, unsoundness
Near Antonyms of aberration

lucidity, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness

normality, soundness
Antonyms of aberration

mind, saneness, sanity

2 something that is different from what is ordinary or expected

  • there are some slight aberrations in the type due to the nature of old printing presses
Synonyms of aberration

abnormality, anomaly, exception, oddity, oddment, rarity
Words Related to aberration

curiosity, peculiarity, singularity

accident, bizarrerie, phenomenon, quirk, vagary

distortion, kink, mutation, variation

difference, disparity, inconsistence, inconsistency

error, mistake

contradiction, paradox
Near Antonyms of aberration

norm, ordinary, usual

Learn More about aberration

  1. See words that rhyme with aberration Dictionary: Definition of aberration Medical Dictionary: Definition of aberration Spanish Central: Translation of aberration Nglish: Translation of aberration for Spanish speakers Britannica English: Translation of aberration for Arabic speakers Britannica.com: Encyclopedia article about aberration

Seen and Heard

What made you want to look up aberration? Please tell us where you read or heard it (including the quote, if possible).

show comments hide comments

Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Love words? Need even more definitions?

Subscribe to America's largest dictionary and get thousands more definitions and advanced search—ad free!

Words at Play

Ask the Editors

Word Games