Dictionary

deviant en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/ (UK)
• (UK) audio

Etymology

From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”. * (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.

Meanings

1. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.
   • He’s like more successful but equally morally abhorrent right-wing undercover operative James O’Keefe’s non-union Mexican equivalent, a dunce whose one move involves incompetently attempting to frame figures of seemingly unimpeachable moral integrity, like Robert Mueller or good old Mayor Pete, as deviant sex criminals like Wohl’s God Donald Trump by unsuccessfully trying to get people to come forward with bogus sexual assault allegations. 2019 May 1, Nathan Rabin, “My World of Flops Get a Load of This Maroon Case File #121/My Year of Flops # 18 Jacob Wohl”, in Nathan Rabin's Happy Place:
   • At the trial, the extent of his deviant behaviour became clear.

Forms

Synonyms

deviate

Translations (29)

fi poikkeava (of or pertaining to a deviation) · es desconforme (of or pertaining to a deviation) · mk девија́нтен (of or pertaining to a deviation) · sv avvikande (of or pertaining to a deviation) · it anormale (of or pertaining to a deviation) · it deviante (of or pertaining to a deviation) · fr déviant (of or pertaining to a deviation) · cs úchylný (of or pertaining to a deviation) · es anormal (of or pertaining to a deviation) · ru девиа́нтный (of or pertaining to a deviation) · de anders (of or pertaining to a deviation) · es aberrante (of or pertaining to a deviation) · ota اكری (of or pertaining to a deviation) · es desviado (of or pertaining to a deviation) · hu deviáns (of or pertaining to a deviation) · de pervers (of or pertaining to a deviation) · es desviante (of or pertaining to a deviation) · bg отклоняващ се (of or pertaining to a deviation) · es disconforme (of or pertaining to a deviation) · lkt šikšíl (of or pertaining to a deviation) · ro deviant (of or pertaining to a deviation) · mk на́стран (of or pertaining to a deviation) · nl afwijkend (of or pertaining to a deviation) · cs deviantní (of or pertaining to a deviation) · uk девіа́нтний (of or pertaining to a deviation) · ro deviator (of or pertaining to a deviation) · ota آزغین (of or pertaining to a deviation) · de abnormal (of or pertaining to a deviation) · de abweichend (of or pertaining to a deviation)

deviant en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/ (UK)
• (UK) audio

Etymology

From Middle English devyaunt (“deviating, different”), from Late Latin dēviāns, present participle of dēviō (“to stray, deviate or detour”). The noun is from the adjective, possibly attested in Middle English with the meaning “one who goes astray”. * (DeviantArt member): So called because the website was originally for people who modified (deviated) computer applications.

Meanings

1. A person who deviates, especially from norms of social behavior.
   • He was branded as a deviant and ostracized.
2. A thing, phenomenon, or trend that deviates from an expectation or pattern.
   • As the graph shows, the March sales trend is the deviant.
3. (Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.
   • Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011). 2016, Brian Lee Jones, “Deviously Deviant: The Strange Tapestry that is deviantART.com”, in Barbara Guzzetti, Mellinee Lesley, editors, Handbook of Research on the Societal Impact of Digital Media (Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts), Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 390:
   • In contrast to Flickr, deviantArt offers a broad range of user affordances, enabling both synchronous and asynchronous interpersonal and group communication, as well as networking with other deviants and the surveillance of the work of others (through the deviantWATCH affordance). 2014, Peter Mechant, Lieven De Marez, “Studying Web 2.0 Interactivity: A Research Framework and Two Case Studies”, in Cyber Behavior: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications, Information Science Reference, →ISBN, page 1709:
   • “Deviants continue to own their own works,” [Angelo] Sotira wrote. “In the future, there's a possibility Wix might provide opportunities for you to license your work — only if you want to — to more people around the world.” 2017 February 24, Natt Garun, “Wix has acquired DeviantArt, which may let artists license their work for the site builder”, in The Verge:
   • Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters. 2013 February 22, Alkim Almila Akdag Salah, Albert Ali Salah, “Flow of innovation in deviantArt: following artists on an online social network site”, in Mind & Society, volume 12, pages 137–149:
   • While I myself have no problems as far as favoriting instead of commenting is concerned, since a lot of deviants are like this, I thought it was right to tell people how to comment correctly. 2009, Grekkikay, post on how to critique art; quoted in Linda Vigdor, “Constructing Learning through the Creative Evaluation of Visual Arts Production”, in Hiesun Cecilia Suhr, editor, Online Evaluation of Creativity and the Arts (Routledge Studies in New Media and Cyberculture), New York, N.Y.; London: Routledge, 2015, section “Creative Evaluation as Practiced in Three Critique Environments”, exhibit 2 (DeviantArt.com), pages 87–88:

Forms

Deriveds

deviantization · phenodeviant · nondeviant · deviantize

Relateds

Deviant

Synonyms

irregularity · heteroclite (person who deviates) · outlier · nonconformist · abnormality (thing that deviates)

Translations (34)

ja 異常物 (thing that deviates) · pl dewiant (person who deviates) · de Andersdenker (person who deviates) · nl afwijkeling (thing that deviates) · nl afwijkeling (person who deviates) · it atipico (thing that deviates) · fi poikkeava (person who deviates) · uk збо́ченець (person who deviates) · de Perverser (person who deviates) · de Querulant (person who deviates) · it anormale (thing that deviates) · es anormal (person who deviates) · sv avvikare (person who deviates) · de Abnormaler (person who deviates) · es desconforme (person who deviates) · it insolito (thing that deviates) · bg отклонение (thing that deviates) · fi poikkeus (thing that deviates) · uk збо́ченка (person who deviates) · it pervertito (person who deviates) · it anormale (person who deviates) · de Abweichler (person who deviates) · fr déviant (person who deviates) · mk отстапу́вање (thing that deviates) · yue 異常物 /异常物 (thing that deviates) · it inusuale (thing that deviates) · tr aykırı (thing that deviates) · es desviado (person who deviates) · nl afvallige (person who deviates) · es desviante (person who deviates) · de Perversität (thing that deviates) · cs deviant (person who deviates) · es disconforme (person who deviates) · da afviger (person who deviates)