aberrance

The language Americans use for the murders of women by men leans heavily on aberrance and singularity — men who murder women have “snapped,” they are “evil,” they are “disaffected outsiders.”

For as long as he can remember, Baer believed that being gay was an aberrance — and that to indulge it would lead to a lonely death.

It is a tally of aberrance that we perform in our darkest hours, when families of origin and childhood friends remind us, yet again, of our undeniable difference.

There's a line in the movie's press materials that talks about how the film invites us to see aberrance not as a threat, "but a shimmering, new beauty."

Poets and scientists both speak of the capacity for aberrance in the human psyche.