- deviation
- n1. veer, veering, curve, curving, turn, turning, swerve, swerving, bend, bending; tacking, wheeling, wheeling about, swinging about; shift, shifting, switch, switching, shunting, straying, drifting, roving, divagating; digression, digressing, maundering.2. departure, divergence, declension, declination, deflection, stepping aside, steering clear; change, difference.3. aberration, waywardness, deviousness, unacceptableness; anomaly, abnormality, irregularity, variable, variableness; strangeness, oddness, incongruousness, peculiarity, curiousness, queerness, eccentricity, quirk, Inf. quirkiness; unconventionality, uncommonness, uncommonality, unusualness, exception, singularity, singularness, individuality.4. unnaturalness, freakishness, Inf. kinkiness; perversion, corruption, wantonness, depravity, depravation, degeneracy, degeneration, decadence, deterioration, vitiation, debasement, abasement; licentiousness, lasciviousness, lewdness, erotomania; homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, sexual inversion, lesbianism, sapphism, tribadism or tribady, Inf. gayness, Derog. faggotry, Derog. faggism; bisexuality, bisex-ualism, amphieroticism, Sl. swinging or hitting both ways; autoeroticism.5.(all with reference to sexual relations) perversion, fiendishness, deviance, abnormality, psychopathy, pathology, criminality; sadism, masochism, sadomasochism, Sl. s-m, algolagnia, algolagny; fetishism, voyeurism, scatophilia, narcissism, exhibitionism; sodomy, buggery; pederasty, pedophilia; coprophilia; necrophilia; zoophilia; incest, incestuousness.6. division, departure, disunion, secession, desertion, underground movement; separation, falling out, breach, split, rupture, break, rent.7. monstrosity, heteroclite, freak, mutant, hermaphrodite, epicene.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.