deviant

See also: Deviant, and déviant

English

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈdiː.vi.ənt/

• Audio (UK):

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Adjective

deviant (comparative more deviant, superlative most deviant)

1. Characterized by deviation from an expectation or a social standard.

   At the trial, the extent of his deviant behavior became clear.

Translations

of or pertaining to a deviation

• Bulgarian: отклоняващ се (otklonjavašt se)
• Czech: deviantní, úchylný (cs) m
• Dutch: afwijkend (nl)
• Finnish: poikkeava (fi)
• French: déviant (fr) m
• German: abweichend (de), abnormal (de), pervers (de), anders (de)
• Hungarian: deviáns (hu)
• Italian: anormale (it) m, deviante (it) m
• Lakota: šikšíl
• Macedonian: девија́нтен (devijánten), на́стран (nástran)
• Romanian: deviant, deviator (ro) m or n
• Russian: девиа́нтный (ru) (deviántnyj)
• Spanish: anormal (es)
• Swedish: avvikande (sv)
• Ukrainian: девіа́нтний (deviántnyj)

Noun

deviant (plural deviants)

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.

4. (Internet) A member of the online art community DeviantArt.

   Alternative form: Deviant

   • 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:

     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).

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     Our data stem from these DD’s and galleries of the corresponding deviants and were acquired directly from dA Headquarters.

   • 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:

     Many deviants strongly criticized the sharing features as facilitating art theft (Herr-Stephenson & Perkel, 2008; Perkel, 2011).

   • 2017 February 24, Natt Garun, “Wix has acquired DeviantArt, which may let artists license their work for the site builder”, in The Verge‎^[1]:

     “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.”

Synonyms

• (person who deviates): heteroclite, nonconformist; see also Thesaurus:maverick
• (thing that deviates): abnormality, irregularity, outlier; see also Thesaurus:anomaly

Translations

person who deviates

• Czech: deviant (cs) m
• Danish: afviger c
• Dutch: afwijkeling m, afvallige (nl)
• Finnish: poikkeava (fi)
• French: déviant (fr) m
• German: Abweichler (de) m, Abnormaler m, Perverser m, Querulant (de) m, Andersdenker m
• Italian: pervertito (it), anormale (it) m
• Polish: dewiant (pl) m
• Spanish: anormal (es), desconforme (es), desviado (es)
• Swedish: avvikare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: збо́ченець m (zbóčenecʹ), збо́ченка f (zbóčenka)

thing that deviates

• Bulgarian: отклонение (bg) n (otklonenie)
• Dutch: afwijkeling m
• Finnish: poikkeus (fi)
• German: Perversität (de) f
• Italian: inusuale (it) m, anormale (it) m, insolito (it) m, atipico (it) m
• Macedonian: отстапу́вање n (otstapúvanje)

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Translations to be checked

• Romanian: ^{(please verify)} deviat

Derived terms

• deviantization
• deviantize
• nondeviant
• phenodeviant

 

See also

Not to be confused with defiant.

References

• Random House Webster’s Unabridged Electronic Dictionary, 1987-1996.

Anagrams

• nivated

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin devians.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛvɪjant]
• Hyphenation: de‧vi‧ant

Noun

deviant m anim (female equivalent deviantka)

1. deviant

Declension

Declension of deviant (hard masculine animate)

	singular	plural
nominative	deviant	devianti
genitive	devianta	deviantů
dative	deviantovi, deviantu	deviantům
accusative	devianta	devianty
vocative	deviante	devianti
locative	deviantovi, deviantu	deviantech
instrumental	deviantem	devianty

Related terms

• deviace
• deviantní

 

Further reading

• “deviant”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
• “deviant”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989

German

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin devians.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deˈvi̯ant]
• Hyphenation: de‧vi‧ant

• Audio:

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Adjective

deviant (strong nominative masculine singular devianter, comparative devianter, superlative am deviantesten)

1. (sociology, psychology) deviant

Declension

Positive forms of deviant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist deviant	sie ist deviant	es ist deviant	sie sind deviant
strong declension (without article)	nominative	devianter	deviante	deviantes	deviante
	genitive	devianten	devianter	devianten	devianter
	dative	deviantem	devianter	deviantem	devianten
	accusative	devianten	deviante	deviantes	deviante
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der deviante	die deviante	das deviante	die devianten
	genitive	des devianten	der devianten	des devianten	der devianten
	dative	dem devianten	der devianten	dem devianten	den devianten
	accusative	den devianten	die deviante	das deviante	die devianten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein devianter	eine deviante	ein deviantes	(keine) devianten
	genitive	eines devianten	einer devianten	eines devianten	(keiner) devianten
	dative	einem devianten	einer devianten	einem devianten	(keinen) devianten
	accusative	einen devianten	eine deviante	ein deviantes	(keine) devianten

Comparative forms of deviant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist devianter	sie ist devianter	es ist devianter	sie sind devianter
strong declension (without article)	nominative	devianterer	deviantere	devianteres	deviantere
	genitive	devianteren	devianterer	devianteren	devianterer
	dative	devianterem	devianterer	devianterem	devianteren
	accusative	devianteren	deviantere	devianteres	deviantere
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der deviantere	die deviantere	das deviantere	die devianteren
	genitive	des devianteren	der devianteren	des devianteren	der devianteren
	dative	dem devianteren	der devianteren	dem devianteren	den devianteren
	accusative	den devianteren	die deviantere	das deviantere	die devianteren
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein devianterer	eine deviantere	ein devianteres	(keine) devianteren
	genitive	eines devianteren	einer devianteren	eines devianteren	(keiner) devianteren
	dative	einem devianteren	einer devianteren	einem devianteren	(keinen) devianteren
	accusative	einen devianteren	eine deviantere	ein devianteres	(keine) devianteren

Superlative forms of deviant

number & gender		singular			plural
		masculine	feminine	neuter
predicative		er ist am deviantesten	sie ist am deviantesten	es ist am deviantesten	sie sind am deviantesten
strong declension (without article)	nominative	deviantester	devianteste	deviantestes	devianteste
	genitive	deviantesten	deviantester	deviantesten	deviantester
	dative	deviantestem	deviantester	deviantestem	deviantesten
	accusative	deviantesten	devianteste	deviantestes	devianteste
weak declension (with definite article)	nominative	der devianteste	die devianteste	das devianteste	die deviantesten
	genitive	des deviantesten	der deviantesten	des deviantesten	der deviantesten
	dative	dem deviantesten	der deviantesten	dem deviantesten	den deviantesten
	accusative	den deviantesten	die devianteste	das devianteste	die deviantesten
mixed declension (with indefinite article)	nominative	ein deviantester	eine devianteste	ein deviantestes	(keine) deviantesten
	genitive	eines deviantesten	einer deviantesten	eines deviantesten	(keiner) deviantesten
	dative	einem deviantesten	einer deviantesten	einem deviantesten	(keinen) deviantesten
	accusative	einen deviantesten	eine devianteste	ein deviantestes	(keine) deviantesten

Further reading

• “deviant” in Duden online
• “deviant” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

Latin

Verb

dēviant

1. third-person plural present active indicative of dēviō

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French déviant.

Adjective

deviant m or n (feminine singular deviantă, masculine plural devianți, feminine and neuter plural deviante)

1. deviant

Declension

Declension of deviant

		singular			plural
		masculine	neuter	feminine	masculine	neuter	feminine
nominative/ accusative	indefinite	deviant		deviantă	devianți	deviante
	definite	deviantul		devianta	devianții	deviantele
genitive/ dative	indefinite	deviant		deviante	devianți	deviante
	definite	deviantului		deviantei	devianților	deviantelor