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aberration
1590s, "a wandering, straying," from L.
aberrationem
(nom.
aberratio
) "a wandering," from pp. stem of
aberrare
"go astray," from
ab-
"away" +
errare
"to wander" (see
err
). Meaning "deviation from the normal type" first attested 1846.