what does deviant mean?
DEVIANT as NOUN
- Meaning
- a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
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Hypernyms(s) deviant is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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DEVIANT as ADJECTIVE
- Meaning
- markedly different from an accepted norm
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- aberrent behavior
- deviant ideas
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