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Definition: Deviance |
DevianceNoun1. An aberrant state or condition. 2. Deviate behavior. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Social Sciences | Not merely behaviour that happens to violate a norm; it is behaviour that violates a norm to which the actor is oriented at the time. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: DevianceSynonyms: aberrance (n), aberrancy (n), aberration (n), deviation (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Deviance |
| English words defined with "deviance": Baron Richard von Krafft-Ebing ♦ Krafft-Ebing ♦ Richard von Krafft-Ebing. (references) |
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Political Economy | Zambia | With some deviance, the MMD has generally pursued this path since 1991, although calls for a constitutional amendment for a third presidential term early in 2001 caused a split within the party. (references) |
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| "Deviance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 96.67% of the time. "Deviance" is used about 390 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 96.67% | 377 | 14,506 |
| Noun (proper) | 3.33% | 13 | 97,576 |
| Total | 100.00% | 390 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "deviance": curriculum-deviance, relevance----------------prominence------------deviance, role-deviance. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "deviance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 偏差 (Deviation). (various references) | |
Czech | deviace (deviation), odchylka (aberration, deflection, deviation, divergence, divergency, irregularity, variance), úchylka (deviation, swerve, variation). (various references) | |
Danish | afvigelse (aberrance, aberration). (various references) | |
Dutch | deviantie (deviation), deviant gedrag (deviation), afwijkend gedrag (abnormal behaviour, deviant behaviour, deviation, malfunction, non-conformance). (various references) | |
Farsi | کج رفتاری , انحراف (Corruption, Deflexion, Departure, Detour, Digression, Inclination, Invert, Leeway, Offset, Perversion, Refraction, Skew, Slope, Veer, Yaw), رفتارمنحرف , برگشتگی (Invert, Turnover). (various references) | |
French | déviance (deviation). (various references) | |
German | Devianz (deviancy), abweichung (aberration, deviation, divergence, excursion, abnormality, deviant, variance). (various references) | |
Greek | παρέκκλιση (aberration, deviation). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | evianceday.(various references) | |
Portuguese | desvio (detour, deflection, deflexion, deviation, shunt, siding). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | zastranjivanje (swerve, tangent). (various references) | |
Spanish | desviación (deviation, aberration, deflection, diversion). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "deviance": deviances. (additional references) | |
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"Deviance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Davinci, degiance, deivence, devience, Devienne, Devinka. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "deviance" (pronounced dē"vēuns) |
| 5 | -v ē u n s | subservience. |
| 4 | -ē u n s | ambiance, ambience, audience, dalliance, disobedience, expedience, experience, inexperience, invariance, obedience, prescience, radiance, resilience, transience, variance. |
| 3 | -u n s | absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, abeyance, abhorrence, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-n-v" | |
-1 letter: evinced, vendace. | |
-2 letters: advice, aedine, decane, devein, device, edenic, endive, envied, evince, invade, veined. | |
-3 letters: acned, caned, canid, caved, cavie, dance, daven, deave, deice, diene, divan, eaved, evade, naevi, naive, nicad, niece, nieve, vaned, veena, venae, viand, viced, vinca, vined. | |
-4 letters: aced, acid, acne, aide, avid, cade, cadi, caid, cain, cane, cave, cede, cedi. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-i-n-v" | |
+1 letter: deviances. | |
+2 letters: cadaverine, deviancies, unachieved, verdancies. | |
+3 letters: cadaverines, deliverance, medevacking, underactive. | |
+4 letters: advertencies, cantilevered, deliverances, denunciative, disseverance, inadvertence, inadvertency, revaccinated, underachieve. | |
+5 letters: confederative, conservatized, countervailed, disseverances, inadvertences, overcautioned, overdominance, overeducating, overeducation, underachieved, underachiever, underachieves. | |
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