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Difference Between Errant and Aberrant

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Errant

Erring or straying from the accepted course or standards
An errant husband coming back from a night on the tiles

Aberrant

Aberrant is a role-playing game created by White Wolf Game Studio in 1999, set in 2008 in a world where super-powered humans started appearing one day in 1998. It is the middle setting in the greater Trinity Universe timeline, chronologically situated about 90 years after Adventure!, White Wolf's Pulp era game, and over a century before the psionic escapades of Trinity/Aeon.

Errant

Travelling in search of adventure
That same lady errant

Aberrant

Departing from an accepted standard
This somewhat aberrant behaviour requires an explanation

Errant

Roving, especially in search of adventure
Knights errant.

Aberrant

Deviating from what is considered proper or normal
Aberrant behavior.
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Errant

Failing to adhere to guidelines or moral standards
Errant youngsters.

Aberrant

Deviating from what is typical for a specified thing
An aberrant form of a gene.

Errant

Moving from the proper course or established limits
Errant lambs.

Aberrant

One that is aberrant.

Errant

Aimless or irregular in motion
An errant afternoon breeze.

Aberrant

Differing from the norm.
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Errant

Missing an intended target or recipient
An errant shot.

Aberrant

Straying from the right way; deviating from morality or truth.

Errant

Straying from the proper course or standard, or outside established limits.

Aberrant

Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.

Errant

Roving around; wandering.

Aberrant

A person or object that deviates from the rest of a group.

Errant

Prone to making errors; misbehaving.
We ran down the street in pursuit of the errant dog.

Aberrant

(biology) A group, individual, or structure that deviates from the usual or natural type, especially with an atypical chromosome number.

Errant

Obsolete form of arrant

Aberrant

Wandering; straying from the right way.

Errant

A knight-errant.

Aberrant

Deviating from the ordinary or natural type; exceptional; abnormal.
The more aberrant any form is, the greater must have been the number of connecting forms which, on my theory, have been exterminated.

Errant

Wandering; deviating from an appointed course, or from a direct path; roving.
Seven planets or errant stars in the lower orbs of heaven.

Aberrant

One whose behavior departs substantially from the norm of a group

Errant

Notorious; notoriously bad; downright; arrant.
Would make me an errant fool.

Aberrant

Markedly different from an accepted norm;
Aberrent behavior
Deviant ideas

Errant

Journeying; itinerant; - formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.

Errant

One who wanders about.

Errant

Straying from the right course or from accepted standards;
Errant youngsters

Errant

Uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable;
An errant breeze

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