deviance
[ dee-vee-uhns ]
/ ˈdi vi əns /
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noun
deviant quality or state.
deviant behavior.
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Also de·vi·an·cy .
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How to use deviance in a sentence
Duggar is playing on the old and false conservative conflation of non-heteronormativity with criminal deviancy.
The late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once famously indicted the cultural condition of “defining deviancy down.”
His computer was filled with content suggesting sexual deviancy or erotic artistry, depending on your point of view.
The late Sen. Pat Moynihan wrote of “defining deviancy downward.”
British Dictionary definitions for deviance
deviance
/ (ˈdiːvɪəns) /
noun
Also called: deviancy the act or state of being deviant
statistics a measure of the degree of fit of a statistical model compared to that of a more complete model
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