different between aberrancy vs aberrance

English

Etymology

From aberrance +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /æ.?b??.n?.si/, /?æ.b??.n?.s?/

Noun

aberrancy (countable and uncountable, plural aberrancies)

1. The condition of being aberrant; an aberrance. [from 17th c.]
   • 1646, Sir Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.3:

     Thus they commonly affect no man any further than he deserts his reason, or complies with their aberrancies.

2. (geometry) The deviation of a curve from circular form.

References

• aberrancy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Alternative forms

• aberrancy

Etymology

From aberr (“to stray”), from Latin aberr? (“to wander from the way”) + -ance

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ.b??.n?s/, /æ?b??.n?ts/

Noun

aberrance (countable and uncountable, plural aberrances)

1. State of being aberrant; a wandering from the right way; deviation from truth, rectitude. [Mid 17^th century.]

Translations

References

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.b?.???s/

Noun

aberrance f (plural aberrances)

1. (statistics) character of what is aberrant
2. (uncommon) an aberration or anomaly

Further reading

• “aberrance” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).