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exception
[ik-sep-shuhn] 
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exception
[ik-sep-shuhn]
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | leaving out |
| Synonyms: | barring, debarment, disallowment, excepting, exclusion, excusing, expulsion, noninclusion, omission, passing over, rejection, repudiation, reservation |
| Antonyms: | admittal, admittance, allowance, inclusion |
| Main Entry: | abnormality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being different from standard or norm |
| Synonyms: | aberrancy, aberration, anomalism, anomaly, atypicalness, bizarreness, deformity, deviance, deviancy, deviation, eccentricity, exception, extraordinariness, flaw, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, preternaturalness, singularity, strangeness, uncommonness, unnaturalness, unusualness, weirdness |
| Antonyms: | normality, normalness, sameness, standard |
| Main Entry: | anomaly |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deviation from normal, usual |
| Synonyms: | aberration, abnormality, departure, deviation, eccentricity, exception, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, oddity, peculiarity, rarity, unconformity, unorthodoxy |
| Antonyms: | conformity, normality, regularity, standard, usual, usualness |
| Main Entry: | condition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | requirement, limitation |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, article, catch, codicil, contingency, demand, essential, exception, exemption, fine print, kicker, modification, must, necessity, postulate, precondition, prerequisite, provision, proviso, qualification, requisite, reservation, rule, sine qua non, small print, stipulation, strings, terms |
| Main Entry: | difference |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dissimilarity, distinctness |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, anomaly, antithesis, asymmetry, change, characteristic, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, departure, deviation, digression, discongruity, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, distinction, divergence, diversity, exception, heterogeneity, idiosyncrasy, inequality, irregularity, nonconformity, opposition, particularity, peculiarity, separateness, separation, singularity, unconformity, unlikeness, unorthodoxness, variance, variation, variety |
| Notes: | deference is a courteous expression of regard or respect, while difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar deferential means showing courteous expression of regard or respect; difference is the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; differential means relating to or showing a difference or the quality of the difference between similar things |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, alikeness, concurrence, conformity, likeness, sameness, similarity, uniformity |
| Main Entry: | dispensation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | permission |
| Synonyms: | exception, exemption, immunity, indulgence, license, privilege, relaxation, relief, remission, reprieve |
| Antonyms: | denial, veto |
| Main Entry: | exclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion; forbiddance |
| Synonyms: | ban, bar, blackball, blockade, boycott, coventry, cut, debarment, debarring, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, occlusion, omission, ostracism, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome |
| Main Entry: | exemption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom from a responsibility |
| Synonyms: | absolution, discharge, dispensation, exception, exoneration, immunity, impunity, privilege, release |
| Antonyms: | accountability, answerability, liability, responsibility |
| Main Entry: | impunity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | freedom |
| Synonyms: | dispensation, exception, exemption, immunity, liberty, license, nonliability, permission, privilege, security |
| Antonyms: | imprisonment, incarceration |
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